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I'm considering using drupal for customer who require a CMS, and have also heard that it may work for my customer's eCommerce needs, but I'm concerned that the average customer may not be able to understand the complex administration area. I'd like to hear other web designers talk about their experience with customers who have had a Drupal CMS site made for them.

Hello everyone,I am interested in an owning an ecommerce website that I can be able to update and publish materials without the need to touch the coding part of the site.A friends says drupal is exactly what i need.My question is as follows;-
1-I have never designed a website nor do i even understand html.Is drupal for someone like me
2-If Drupal is that powerful and excellent,then why is it free?
3-Where is the best place to start learning the basics drupa?
4-Do i need php technical know-how to be able to design sites with drupal?

I'm building some online API Documentation for a "framework" that my company has built.
It's basically going to be your standard menu tree on the left, with all the categories that
can expand out into specific sections, and then the content on the right.

I have a dilemma, as the title should had obviously given away. My client wants a site like this: http://www.miami.com/ with all the bell and whistles and then some. Wants visitors to be able to log in, review restaurants, etc. etc. A hell of a lot for one person. Not to mention he wants it done byt the end of the year.

Now I have two options, I can code it from scratch with PHP, stealing little scraps of code where they fit, which I have been doing, or I can learn a CMS like Drupal, to manage it. I have no experience with Drupal what-so-ever. Here's an example of what I've done so far on this guy's site: http://bellevue.com/restaurant.php. Pretty simple, but there's a lot of dynamics.

Now my first question is thus, is it worth learning a CMS like Drupal? I have experience with CMSMS, a really simple CMS, easy to follow, but Drupal seems like hell to start off with.

My second question is, can something like Drupal handle all the interactions I have to do? For example, pulling all those map points from my database, adding them to an XML, then parsing them. I've heard that Drupal has some issues with Javascript, which obviously is a must with this site.

Thirdly, if I chose to use Drupal, would the 40+ hours I've put into the site so far be crap, or can I reuse my code?

We are looking for multiple stores software, anywhere from 5 stores to 500 stores and beyond.
Each store needs to run independently from each other, but use the same database.

I haven’t played with Drupal in a long time so I’m hoping I don’t ask too many stupid question.

I’ve been asked to create a new web site for a local sports organization and I thought drupal would be perfect for this. We have discussed what kind of content it should contain and it’s now time to create a first prototype to show people and see what people say. Before I start creating a protype I would like to check with those of you who have more experience if my ideas looks sensible or if I should do something different.

At first the content should be

• Information pages, typically “Here is what we do”, “What is XXX”
• Invitations to events/competitions
• News items “Don’t forget XXX”, “We are looking for someone who ...”, “X won Y”
• Stories - typically what happened at different events/competitions - longer texts
• Information for different sub-groups within the organization

All of the items above will contain both text and photos (and maybe embedded videos from YouTube).

Later we have been discussing to add:

• Forums
• Photo gallery
• Possible custom pages/forms for handling different tasks within the organizations