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We have a client that would need iterative development almost ready to convert to Drupal. However, one of their managers is concerned about the issues with migrating Drupal sites from dev to live. In particular he sighted this article as a reason as a possible show stopper.

How easy is it to create a search by post code feature within Drupal, such as found on this site www.bigbarn.co.uk

I'm guessing I'd need to create custom records using CCK and then present the information using views and/or panels?

Hello. I'm a newbie in Drupal (read: 2 days) although I've used SharePoint and cms400.net and my boss has asked me to implement the following in our site using Drupal 6:
1. The site will consist of multiple pages holding multiple polls
2. The polls will be categorized by subject
3. Each poll will ask questions plus it will also ask the person for comments. The comments will be limited to approx. 160 characters only.
4. Only registered users can vote, although poll results (in a pie chart format) and comments can be viewed by guests. There should be a single box below each chart that displays random comments from the poll and should change every few seconds without the user needing to refresh the page manually. Beside each poll, a small image/icon should appear.
5. Each user can only vote and submit a comment once per poll
6. On the start/home page, users will see the top 5 to 10 most active polls in pie chart format, with the same random comments box I mentioned in #5 below or beside it together with the associated image/icon mentioned in #5.
7. In a menu at the left or top, there will be a link to the various poll categories where they can vote and view results.

I need to make an e-shop for my client. I have never used drupal before (but I'm very experienced in Wordpress if that means anything here...).
Is Drupal the right thing for this? What's the best open source e-commerce module? I need articles and a shopping cart.

And is there any dashboard with icons in Drupal?

Thanks!

Hi

I am wondering whether Drupal is right for my website. I have also added the Voting Up/Down module so that registered users can vote comments up or down - for example, spam comments will be voted down. Currently the comments are ordered by 'most recent' - the default. I want to change this - instead I want the comments to be ordered by 'most votes'.

Does drupal allow this? Or should I look at another solution for my website? Currently I cannot seem to do this with the Views module because when I click 'sort', I cannot find the voting API fields..

Hi, I have recently been told about drupal from a friend of mine and I was wondering if someone here could answer my question. I am pretty noob to the whole website creation side of things.

I have my own SMF forums and I would like for my users to be able to login to the forums and be able to post videos from youtube on a separate page (drupal hopefully).

Is there a way that I can create a drupal page that will allow users from my website to go to the drupal page (without logging in again) and embedding youtube videos to the site?
Are there any examples of this?