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Hi there

I've a friend who owns a very simple static webpage for a chairty. It costs them money every time they want to make a simple update.

I told them they should use a CMS instead, so they can make posts, news updates, add photos themselves.

However, while as a developer I find Drupal absolutely brilliant, logic, and very extendable, I just know that the person in question (and many others) would find all the options in the admin section of a drupal site very daunting.

I want to be able to open a web based program within my drupal page i.e. the content block how do i configure the block to do this.

In looking at the forums - they really aren't that good and searching for drill down is non-existent unfortunately. But what also is irking is that there isn't a way to reference each individual post as it's own page as it is with many forums. Isn't this very poor for seo? Essentially right now it looks like drupal is listed based upon the thread of an entire page and not invividual posts. Not sure if good or bad.

I'm looking to start a project where I'd like to have it possible for users to register their own blog, and then be able to just goto username.domain.tld to access their site. Could someone point me in the right direction where I could achieve something like this? If Drupal doesn't do it, what might I look for in the FOSS world that would support where I'm going with this?

Thanks,

FF

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