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Hello everyone. Please help with your suggestions.

I am not a developer but a very hands-on subject matter expert.

Having been badly burnt by poor performance in the past, I am trying to pre-empt performance issues. Please suggest what is the ideal way to build the site: through taxonomy, content types (CCK) or what?

Expected load:
50-500 users logged in. Approximately 10 times as many anonymous. This may increase further.

Taxonomy:
1500 terms with ten or so cross references:

For example:
Vocabulary 1: all animals
Vocabulary 2: all countries
Vocabulary 3: mammals (so when we query mammals and all animals in the taxonomy, we get a list of mammals)
Vocabulary 4: Profession of user
Vocabulary 5: Type of User

when we query vocabulary 1, 2 and 3, we get all mammals in a particular country, etc.

We will have almost no graphics. We are a text-based information site.

How would we like to present the information?
1. Based upon:
1. the level of the users knowledge - beginner, intermediate, advanced
2. The profession of the user - Physician, College Professor, Scientist, Student, hobbyist
3. The type of audience - member of Press, Employer, HR Professional

Successfully installed Drupal 6.8. I know which theme I am going to use and have some idea of how to set it all up. But I have an unusual business application and do not know the best way to go about building it in Drupal. All ideas and suggestions would be welcome.

I have a website with a number of static content pages that describe a family history research business that I run.

My services are of two types:
1. some fixed ones that can be described like a product for a shopping cart (like looking up an entry in a census)
-- these have a fixed price
2. some that are bespoke to that particular client's needs (for more complex requirements)
-- these are priced by the hour, and I need to give them an estimate before they order.

Once a prospective client likes what they see they should be able to
> place orders for the fixed services - but on checking out they need to give me information about their project (such as the name of the person they are looking for, where they came from, dates etc.)
> contact me to give me the background for the more complex bespoke services, so I can give them an estimate.

Once their order is placed I would need to see it, and acknowledge it.

I've actually installed Drupal locally on my computer and its up and running but beside looking for themes and finding a few modules I'm not sure how to bring my vision to life or if Drupal is really my solution.

I have a pretty good idea of the things I want my site and users to be able to do but I dont even know if its possible with Drupal.

Some things I'm looking to have:

Community aspect/ users have there own page, blog,
Forums
Articles I could have authors contribute
Some content that users contribute rotating on first page
Some ads// feeds
E commerce, users could sell things
Users have their own photo galleries
Users can communicate with each other via messages// in box
Also, I would like it if a user see's another users picture they liked.. they could easily select it and a message/ alert, note could be sent to the other user. Sort of like on dating sites how folks send Winks or flirts.. to other users... I would want them to do for a particular picture
Users could upload multiple galleries
Would like if they could select multiple pictures at once.. and send an alert/ note to other user

Hello guys,

I'm new to Drupal...

If I created a website that had nodes of type 'product' that I displayed on the home page and clicking a product showed a 'product' detail page.

Later down the line, let's say I wanted to sell those products so I start looking Ubercart... can I use my product nodes that I've already created or should I ditch those and use the nodes (if any) that come with Ubercart when installed and activated?

Hope that makes sense... I'm new to this stuff so may have got it upside down...

Cheers,
N

I'm looking for a CMS that can host a site similar to SourceForge (not nearly that robust, but the same general idea). I need users to be able to create "projects" on the site, with each project getting its own "homepage", blog, message board, wiki, etc. Projects can have multiple administrators, and many contributors.

Hello everyone,

My first post... so that's means I haven't got a clue what I'm doing :) and I'm not even sure if this is the correct forum? or should I use http://groups.drupal.org?

I've basically thrown myself in the deep end with a Drupal project, perhaps too deep, but it's a sink or swim world and xmas is round the corner so I've got my work cut out with a new web site! :-)

I've chosen Drupal because I've heard great things about it and if I can crack the nut, I will start using it heavily for every site I do in the future and help others on their way...

Taking a side-step: I'm also a good contributor to other lists (mainly in the 4D development world) so I'm going to be extremely gratefull to everyone that can help me on my way. I think I've just missed London's Social Innovation Camp that I understand is quite Drupal-heavy so shame I missed that...

I've got a project to put together a website that is broken down into 3 phases:

Phase 1). Basic site showing company's products info, home page listing about 6-8 random products in a grid with a random featured product at the top showing a flash or static image.
* Clicking a product shows the products detail page with more blurb and images.
* Other generic pages such as About us, Contact, Press, Jobs