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Hi,

I'm new to the forum, new to web development and new to creating web sites.

I'm going to create a community-based website, for which my research tells me that Drupal is the right choice for a CMS. Joomla has more users, but for communities Drupal is better. Elgg and Pligg don't have nearly the number of programmers trained on them. etc. etc.

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I'm trying to use Drupal to make a website with the following requirements:

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I searched through the web and could not find any information if there is a way to grab all content so it can be translated externally and bring this back into the drupal site. I am just planning a side and would like to avoid any bad surprises.

A few months ago I installed drupal 5.X on my XAMPP server (apache + mysql) anyway I want to totally remove the installation and then reinstall drupal + ubercart. I want to do this because I built a site because and its still on my current installation but with it there it involves to much stuff and I cant get ubercart working so i want to start fresh and the new site has nothing to do with the old one.

so how would i remove it just delete the files on my apache server?

Hello

Ild like to ask please ask for some advice if Drupal would be suitable for me?

We do about a hundred websites a year and in the past we have used either custom coding or Joomla for all our sites. I find that Joomla is a bit bloated for small sites of up to ten pages, and custom making cms back offices for sites of 15 to 30 pages is a little slow

I also notice that nearly every site we do has proberbly no more than a few of a selection of maybe 40 functions, things like galleries, members areas, video uploads, download areas, etc etc

I am researching to find out with Drupal it might be possible to have a multisite configuration so that all the sites we make are running from one admin area each with a client login for the admin area of the particular domain, and making a very simplified admin area for them (which does not show any more advanced and slightly confusing admin tools)

Im wondering if it would be possible to from the master admin to control which functions the clients see within their admin area, so that if they only needed a gallery admin and text edotpor they only see that, while if on another site teh client needed ten functions it coudl be enabled so that they see admin tools for those too?

I woudl also like to ask if any one else has tried or doen this type of instalation and whether it is possible?

Hello, World! :)

I would like to create a very simple website with some simple features including database with text and images, a search function and a user registration feature (email confirmation and generated password would do).
I guess it'd not be hard to create such a system from skratch for a pro web developer. Anyway, I heard that Drupal may help me. What do you think? And one more question, where can I store my Drupal site for free?