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Hi

How would I realize the following site: I want to kind of login users. Readers (which everyone becomes automatically upon registration). And authors (which get only promoted by admin).
But the authors do only get a certain set on sites they can create:
For each author a subsite (www.site.org/subsite ) or domain (subsite.site.org) is created. The Author can only edit sites in his subsite. Further can he only create limited nodes. For example on blog, one business card (custom content type), and 3 pages.

Hello,

I have only build a few sites with drupal, and I am trying to decide if I should stick with 5 or move up to 6.

My last site I relied a lot on Embedded Media Field, Embedded Image Field, Embedded Video Field ... and the Drupal 6 version of Embedded media field is still in alpha and says it isn't recommended for production use.

And that got me thinking that maybe I should stick with 5 until 7 comes out, then move to 6 until 8 comes out.... or at least start with the more established version then upgrade once the modules I need are available.

I'm working on my first Drupal site (and based on my experience so far, it will be the first of many). The site is for an art competition for our local art gallery and I'm donating my time and talents to get this up and running.

Here are the goals:

1. Artists log in to the site, enter their contact info and are able to pay their fees ($15/piece entered or 3 pieces for $40, with no limit on the number of pieces entered). Ideally, as the artists upload images of their artwork, their fee total is updated and they can then checkout and pay using paypal.

2. The images that the artists have uploaded are accessible to the competition jury, but not to the public or other artists. They could be sent via e-mail or uploaded to a directory on the server.

3. We would like each artist to have a profile page so they can see which images they've uploaded (showing thumbnails would be ideal) and edit their contact info.

I've been exploring modules, and I think maybe some combination of CCK, Ubercart and a Paypal module may work, but I wonder if that would be overkill and I'm making it more complicated than it needs to be. My knowledge of php is limited to non-existent, so I'd prefer to work with existing modules if possible.

Obviously, this is the flow we have in mind, but if anyone has any ideas of another way to make this work, we'd be greatful for the input.

Thanks,

Hi,

I've drupal before for community based sites and think it's fantastic. I'd love to use it for a new site I'm looking to build but want to assess it vs. joomla and some of the Java portals.

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