Before you start

So we have website where each office and department maintains it's own content. This is a college, so there are about 50 offices and 50 departments. In Drupal each of these groups needs to be able to edit only content in there "site". Each department has one "Editor" who can make changes. No other login id's are needed in the first phase of this project.

I am relatively familiar with building regular and multisite websites with Drupal. Right now, I have a set of sites that is causing me to scratch my head as to the correct way to go about building them before I start.

To me the easiest multisite configuration is separate directories in sites and separate databases. For example:

- sites/site1.domain.com with site1_db,
- sites/site2.domain.com with site2_db, and
- sites/site3.domain.com with site3_db.

This way I can use a set of common modules and themes in sites/all and I can add modules and themes to a specific site in sites/site1.domain.com/modules as an example. I also have users separate by site, each in their own

I tried to use the Domain Access but it just didn't seem as simple as the multisite setup above.

The problem that is causing me to scratch my head is around users and groups.

The groups that I envision are:

- administrators: to be able to manage their own site and not others,
- members: users logged on that have access to members only area and can post,
- non-members: users logged on that do not have access to members only area but can post, and
- public: anonymous / not logged in users to see public information and not post.

I do apologize and yes i am picking my way through the before you post stuff. I have been interested for a year or more in drual for a basic non-dynamic website. I do not KNOW drupal. yet. But is it possible for a neophyte to get a simple 10 page website happening? I am not a believer in the Dummies series of books but I have seen great reviews of a new drupal for dummies which i am probably going to get. I am asking this beofre i get another domain name and the hosting to try to get this happening?

Hi,

I am new to Drupal, but have been using Joomla! for years. I think I am simply having a hard time making my mind change gears since Drupal and Joomla! are SO different. I have only played around with Drupal a little, and never created a live site.

While creating this new website for a friend, I repeatedly ran into issues with limitations of various Joomls! extensions. I did get the site completed and it is functional, however the amount of upkeep time to manage a simple photo gallery on a website that also has subscriptions is not acceptable.

To the point, I will try to include a subscription and the reason for each item to give you a better idea of the needed functions.

What I need:
Photo Gallery
- Mass upload or read from directory that has been uploaded via ftp to make it very easy to add many images at once. To save time
- Automatically publish photo album at a future date. The website will have new photos every few days, but he wants to be able to go in and set up a few weeks at a time, so he doesn't have to do it every day.
- Automatically unpublish photo album at a future date. He only wants the photo albums to display for one month then automatically unpublish.
- Automatically resize images and create thumbnails. Users needs to click on the image to see the large image.

Hello, I've seen the news about Drupal 7 Alpha 1, I'd like to know and I'm probably not alone where there is a test install where we can login as admin and test everything? An install which reset itselfs every half an hour or so, like it is available on some sites.

Cheers,
James

Hello,

On my site motorcycle, I created a presentation for each motorcycle.

These bikes have a field "price".

I see a sight when you visit a bike that would show the bikes a price close to the bike made.

I come to see the bikes that have the same price but I do not know how to display a price of around -500 .- and +500 .-

That is how I display my sight in my bow: