Before you start

Hi, I need a CMS for a proposed site that shares login across sub-domains and almost nothing else. I've been looking at the various CMS and it seems that Drupal might fit the needs best. But right now, after two days of reading through vairous docs for the different CMS, I'm basically braindead and everything's starting to meld into confusion. So I'll appreciate some handholding tips here please! :D

Briefly, the key requirements are
- A technical administrator takes care of the technical stuff like installing plugins/themes for all sub.
- Each sub-domains have their own theme.
- Each sub-domains has one or a few editor who does moderation/approval, add/remove contributors, and likely ban users.
- contributors can write new content but need to be approved before it is published
- registered users on ANY of the sub-domains can post comments
- content is intended to be shared across domains.

It seems that if I use Domain Access, any "administrator" for one sub-domain can still screw up another sub-domain.

OG seems to avoid this problem, since each group's owner can only admin their own group. However, looking at groups.drupal.org, that isn't the way we want it to appear. Each subdomain/group need their own custom front page and not a list of all available groups.

Hi,

I want to set up a bilingual site with a news section, gallery and contact form. I've set up a site like this before using Drupal and it worked out well except for the gallery. I used the Gallery2 module, which unfortunately did not work very well with the i18n language switcher.

Now I am thinking if I should try wordpress instead or stick with Drupal and try another solution for the gallery. I was wondering if anyone knows any alternate solution for setting up a bilingual gallery (i.e bilingual captions) that can be easy administered?

Thanks in advance!

I have a website (www.chil-es.org) that I already developed using dreamweaver cs4, and have hosted on hostmonster, but I need to add more functionality that I don't have the know-how for. I'm thinking of using a content management system like drupal, but I have questions.

Will I be able to utilize the formatting, etc, from my pre-existing site with drupal? Will I be able to host drupal on hostmonster?

Thanks!!

Hi all, I'm trying to talk a friend into using Drupal, but he is stuck on this WP theme:

http://themeforest.net/item/real-estate-theme/17730

It's a solid look theme, but it's (1) old, (2) doesn't have a blog, which I'd have to somehow build in, (3) has an unresponsive developer, (4) not drupal.

Anyone come across a drupal theme that is similar? Thanks!

Hi.
I'm planning to build a website for a local social activities club. The site is basically a private forum, and a mixed public/private blog, meaning that each user should have a blog, and choose to publish entries as either public or private.
I already managed to build the forum and blog using drupal, but I don't know if drupal is the better option for the public/private stuff.

Hello,
I was just wondering if anyone can comment on using Drupal 6.x on postgresql as opposed to mysql. Can anyone speak to differences in terms of performance, module behavior, etc? It seems that in drupal 6 the database abstraction is supposed to be able to handle postgres or other major dbms, but I've also heard the postgres support is going away for drupal 7.