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Hi there-

I'd love to get some opinions on this -- I've started playing around with Drupal this weekend with the idea of using it on some new sites I'm building but I think I may be over my head.

I'm much more of a web graphic designer than a programmer or webmaster - I tend to think in terms of pages rather than databases. I recently set up a tikiwiki/cms groupware site but it did not come naturally to me at all. I've barely gotten my first test install of Drupal completed on my own site, and now need to go learn how to set up a cron script.

My dilemma: I've got two sites for small businesses that I'm going to be working on over the next month. They're each both going to be about 20 pages or smaller, contain info about the companies' products, services, specials etc. Something like this site in terms of content: http://www.ultimatetoday.com. Each client wants to be able to update one or two pages on his site on a regular basis to list sales and specials. For now there's not going to be any e-commerce, forums, social networking aspect or anything like that. I don't have a lot of time to work on the projects and I'm trying not to charge them very much for the work.

Hi all,

I came across Drupal only a few weeks ago, and I have looked at some documentations and modules, and I think I need some help from you all. What I would like to know is if drupal is a suitable choice for a site such as this: http://www.vouchermate DOT co DOT nz ?

1) It has JS for bookmarking of the vouchers and it offers the ability to check out those vouchers for printing, something like a shopping cart feature, but for vouchers.

Before I heard of drupal, i had already started to develop a website in joomla 1.0. But it appears that joomla is slow. I was wondering if it is possible to convert my joomla website (non-utf 8) to a drupal website. My website has about 2GB of data (database content).

Hi

I am just working on a site where I need a language switcher. Unfortunately can I not use the nice languageicons module because they put the icons in a list under each other. On this side is the switcher going up into the header so there is not that much vertical space.

I need just the flags to be next to each other. Could someone point me in the direction how I can modify the languageicons. Or is there already a module to switch languages which does not take up so much space.

Thanks

I want to set up a blog for a friend. He doesn't want to pay so much money for a shared hosting account, so he is going to get some of this cheap shared hosting packages, where there are many other ppl. at the very same server.

Before I knew that, I'd have chose Drupal for him (I like it and because I'm "into it" atm).
But now I'm a little bit afraid, that Drupal would require too much hardware power for his shared hosting package (he does not yet have it, so I can't test).

I am still working on researching how Drupal works. I've read several tutorials but none of them seem to touch on this subject and i want to sort of have a handle on it before I get started. I have looked at several templates which have one or two navigation bars plus a side column navigation.

* Which items are shown in each type of menu

* If I create a new content type (lets call it "Minutes") will there be a "Minutes" menu item and where will that appear?

* Does the admin allow me to set which items appear in which menu?