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Multi Site Question

I have a site that I have created which in this example is abc.com.

abc.com has 5 total pages,

I want to use multisite to duplicate the site for multiple distributors all with the same theme and sam e 5 pages with some dynamic information

so I want it to create
dist1.abc.com
dist2.abc.com
etc.

On each of the above I want them to have the same 5 pages and then in the header of each site will have specific information (ie: name, email, phone)

Not sure if I can accomplish this or not.

Help!

Our website desperately needs it. See what I mean:
http://www.michiananetworking.com

This is a site for our networking group. There are four or five different chapters for different cities with the group. Basically, we need a super simple and time-effective method to have a group calendar (that events can be added onto), display a picture of everyone's business card with a link to their site, and some information about their business.

This can't be too difficult, but I need a push in the right direction.

Let's say we have a Web site for music group news. We would need to be able to view all the music groups and this will expand indefinitely.

So let's say the menu would look like this:

Bands
> Rock
--The Arctic Monkeys
--Jimmy Eat World
--Weezer
> Pop
-- Britney Spears
-- Miley Cyrus
>Trance
-- Some trancey band

You get the idea. Under each "band page" there would be a separate news stream, images of the band stream, polls on the band, an UpDown vote of recent concerts, etc on that page.

Nothing too difficult sounding, but I don't know what to use. Should I create the bands as a Taxonomy and have that populated with a Taxonomy Menu. Then separate the news streams, images steams, and polls as the content. But how can I get them all to display under the taxonomy of the band? How can I customize the actual Taxonomy pages to get these to show up where I want them on the page.

I'm guessing to use Views to get all that to work and tagging the streams with the band name so it shows up under the correct band.

I have the technical know-how to get it to work, I'm just not sure which tools to use to organize this information.

Hey everyone,

I'm a long time WordPress user and the administrator of many popular blogs that run on WP. Next year I'm launching my own venture, and I'm wondering if Drupal is right for me. There is one area in particular where I'm having trouble determining compatibility with my vision--user generated blogs or diaries.

Hello -

Over the last couple years I have been using ExpressionEngine for my web 'development.' With all the comparisons of EE to Drupal plus the anticipated price increase of the new EE 2, I have decided to look into Drupal as platform for development.

With this being the case there are some things that I have become used to in EE and I wanted to know if Drupal has the same of similar functionality.

Hi All,

This is the first time I'm checking out Drupal. I have a small team of Joomla Developers and a few core PHP programmers. Joomla sites tend to be rather slow and heavy. After reading a few posts about Drupal, I wonder if we should move towards Drupal development. Need your views on a new website we need to build and if Drupal is the right choice for it.

1. Banner management system (Clicks, Impressions and duration based) - Joomla has an extension for this
2. Multilingual support (Chinese, Arabic etc) - Joomla has Joomfish
3. Newsletter Management System - Have a few good extensions in Joomla for this.
4. Roles based content Management - Joomla has limited flexibility here.
5. Need to integrate with Vtiger - Joomla does have a bridge for this but we might need to write custom code anyway. Does Drupal have any extension/add-on to do this?
6. Part of the System is done in Zend Framework, so we need a SSO (Single Sign-on) facility from Drupal to Zend Framework portion. Is it possible?
7. Is it easier/harder to write your custom code in Drupal (Compared to Joomla)
8. Design is of great importance. Is it easy to fit custom design templates/themes in Drupal. I don't see too many good-looking themes in Drupal. What are the challenges?
9. AJAX support - Joomla gives native mootools suuport. Is it easy to use Jquery/YUI with Drupal?