Before you start

Hi

I've run a website for about 13 years and for about 6/7 of those have been running with a custom written CMS using PHP and MySQL.

My main document database contains about 3,000 items, but there are other tables as well (the site sadly developed organically, I wasn't the most logical person in the past), so in total there's probably about 4,000 items I'd consider bringing over.

The site itself can be seen at http://www.walfordweb.co.uk

The main things I need from a CMS are:-
- News/Features system
- Comment system to those items
- Gallery
- Ability to use gallery images within news items
- "Spoiler" system - this takes a document within a particular category, works out it's for the next episode to air and shows only those news items for episodes which have not yet aired.

That's pretty much the size of it. The site has several authors, with multiple owners for particular sections of the site and an "editor-in-chief" for each part.

From looking around the CMSs, I think Drupal is the most suitable of the heavyweight CMSs out there. Would people agree with that? Is it going to be relatively easy to transfer the documents from my custom databases into Drupal format once I get things set up.

Web apps are all the rage these days, and I was wondering what people thought about using Drupal to power a community site like Dribbble.

I listened to a podcast the other day where Dan Cederholm (the creator) said that the site was a Ruby on Rails app, and claimed that it took him and his developer about 9-12 months to have a good, working version of the site ready to launch. Looking at the functionality, I know that its something Drupal could handle almost out of the box - some extra fields, a few Views, user profiles and some jQuery.

I'm planning to migrate an existing site over to a CMS prior to initiating a redesign. The final result will have a blog, a shop and other stuff that I'm sure Drupal can handle easily, but my query is about the core content...

The site is a collection of (really bad) poems. Each poem has its own page. Sometimes, in addition to the text of the poem there's a commentary upon it, sometimes these commentaries include a newspaper cutting. You can see an example at

I am using drupal 6, now I am getting a error during making views

{ "replace": { "#views-tab-default": "\x3cdiv class=\"clear-block views-display views-display-default\"\x3e\n \x3cdiv class=\"top\"\x3e\n \x3cdiv class=\"inside\"\x3e\n

please help me

Hi All,

I'm using Drupal for a client's site, it is so cool I am thinking of using it to redo my site. However, I really don't need front end users, and I don't want people to have to register to post a comment on a blog. But as soon as you install drupal, in your default installation you have the login which is also how you access your site administration. So how would I have:

1.) A site with NO front end users or front end login.
2.) Still be able to access my Admin
3.) Allow users to post comments on news or a blog, with no account?

Hi !
I want ask from you drupalers some advice about performance and hosting solutions.
1.How big is big site? - how many visitors are more than normally and in that hits(visitors) number hosting companis (like godaddy,bluehost and more same companies) will say that now its time for your private server.
2.How many nodes - (videos too) Drupal can handle in normally hosting services.(normaly I mean shared hosting).