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Hi,
I want to create a webpage for a certain type of product. The webpage should contain articles and product-pages.

So if there is a test in a magazine I want to create product-pages for all the products that have been tested. If the product already have been tested before I add the test result to the product page. So the product pages contains short product information and then test results from different tests. If a product scores 4/5 in a test I translate that in to 80%. Is it then possible to create a page listing all the products after average score percent?

Hi guys. With the latest release of vBulletin's "early upgrade" pricing, I have decided to migrate all of my projects off of vBulletin and create all my new projects with drupal.

In the spirit of sharing hard-won knowledge, I want to mention here that Drupal has rich facilities for creating a complex front page display, but they are not obvious.

• You can set any page you want to be "Home" in admin/settings/site-information
• You can create Views with 'page' displays (actually only the main "content" area, not the whole page)
• You can clone your theme's page.tpl.php as page-front.tpl.php and customize it as you wish
• On the front page only, you can display Views with 'block' displays or custom content blocks
• You can write your own theme and add extra regions for use on the front page

This information isn't hidden, but perhaps it will save you time to have it here.

What is somewhat hidden is a module called Panels. (You'll see it referred to as Panels 2, but it is currently at version Panels 3, and its url is http://drupal.org/project/panels.) Panels takes over the whole "Views for a specific page" thing--it's a web UI for laying out the front page and other landing pages. (The Panels module also requires the Chaos Tool Suite module, http://drupal.org/project/ctools.)

Panels is very ambitious in scope, but it is quite mature and currently maintained (by 'merlinofchaos', Earl Miles of CivicSpace)--it was last updated 10/15/09 (3 days ago at this writing).

Hi,

Since some times I am running a Drupal side under 4. Now I will offer my user
Groups under Drupal 6. But I will not make an update now for the 4. It is
possible to connect both databases like described in this the text http://drupal.org/node/18429
for two databases with different Drupal versions?

Hi, I'm starting to work with Drupal.

I want to build community... what modules I need? (social engine)
I want to allow commenting articles, create blogs (domain.com/blog/user), create their own user profiles (domain.com/profile/user)

Help.

I was wondering how important it is to use ssl on the login and admin pages? I'm sorry if this is a dumb question. I've searched for the answer and can't find it. I found the secure pages module, but I don't want to go to all this trouble if it's not necessary.