Before you start

I want to see Handbooks in on complete document that I can see from top to bottom all of it. PDF or word etc.

I am hoping all you great people at drupal forums can help me

Looking to see if drupal will be able to;

- take submissions of entry for competitions/events, and tie into a payment system
- news and updates
- member system
- easy tie in to shopping systems (not essential)
- photo gallery system

Basically I'm trying to judge if its easier to use a ready made product rather than re-write the current one.

Any suggestions would be very welcome.

Thanks.

If I pick Drupal should I start with version 6 or 7? I'll be working on the site fairly soon however switch over to production is realistically 3 months away, if not longer.

Are there any tells how long v7 is away from being stable/ secure?
Do I lose out a lot (of functionality) in the meantime if I start with v6?

Hi everyone,

I'm a Drupal newbie.

I'm maintaining a 3000 page website on a no-longer supported commercial desktop CMS and want to migrate it (and make it a lot better at the same time). Website is mainly informational however I want to add some community features (possibility for visitors to comment on an article etc.).

I run hopes.stanford.edu and it's high time to implement some sort of CMS. I want to have a system allowing users to log in, paste articles they've written in Microsoft Word, and publish them to the website.

However, there are some complicating factors. For one, I need to program a system that allows users to link certain words to a database of glossary terms. I also need to publish articles in a wikipedia-like format (see this example: http://hopes.stanford.edu/diagnsis/assessment/ashd.html).

Is drupal suitable for my site?

I plan to create a fan fiction site. Here are my details.

Users will be catagorized in to 2 groups:
1 Writer ::: can create a page
2 Reader ::: can only comment the page that creates by writer
2.1 Registered ::: Their name will be shown in comments.
2.2 Unregistered ::: They are required to fill name and email.

For each writer, there is a page that contains all pages create by the writer. The content here will be like the content of a book with a link to each page. The page looks like this.

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Writer's blog
- 20100322
- 20100321
- etc

Title of fiction #1
- Preview
- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Part 4 [End]

Title of fiction #2
- Preview
- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Part 4 [End]

Title of fiction #3
- Preview
- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Part 4 [End]

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

For fictions, the title sorts by date last update. All fictions and their submenu (Preview, Part 1, ...) show date created, date for last update, no of people who read this page and no of comments.

I would like the above page to be automatically created. Is it possible?

When the writer creates a fiction, they must fill

For each fiction
- Title
- Summary
- Fiction originally from ... (Harry Potter, Naruto, etc)