Before you start

is there a glossary??

1. whats a NODE?

2. whats "book" ?

3. what "content type"?

i am guess that both at content displays?

4. whats taxonomy, is this the tags for searching in indexing?

i am used to other forum scripts and CMS...so i can understand technical terms

Hello everyone,

I have been trying to start up a new website and I have no idea what CMS to use.
I want to make a site similar to CNET.com' reviews. However, it will be different products, not electronics and gadgets.

Overall features of the site:

~ On the home page all the categories of the "product brands" and "products" will be listed. I need to be able to easily update and direct the links to new pages that I make, which I will discuss soon.



~ When a visitor clicks on a "product brand" on the home page under the category listing they then go to that product brand's page. On that the brand's page it lists all the products they carry. (I need to be able to create new brand pages easily).

example (breadcrumb format):

[Home page > Product Brand Page > Product page]



~ On the specific product page there will be the following info:

-the manufacturer’s description
-features of the product
-an expert review, if there is any (I add the expert reviews to the page)
-member reviews (members register and can add there own reviews)
-pictures/videos
-links to guides on the product in the “Guide Section”
*As well as a rating from the expert and average rating from members (out of 10 stars).

Hello, I have access to 2 servers:

1. very good Linux server with not enough space for photogallery and files to download and
2. not so good Windows server with lots of available space.

So, my question looks simple, but I'm not sure about solution... Can I have one web site running Drupal and use second site as storage for data?

Hi

I'm very new to Drupal, but have a lot of experience with php, CSS, and javascript.

I'm wanting to use Drupal for a new project and just want to check that Drupal can do some of the key features:
Thanks to help in this forum I know I can give different member types different levels of profiles with nodeprofile, which is great.

The site is a catalogue divided into hierarchical categories and locations (country->province->city).

I've set up the categories as taxonomies, and installed the location module which handles the locations and makes integrating with Google maps possible, and it already has the areas built in.

My question:

I want to have two navigation routes: by category or by location or both. So a user can drill down through locations and then also filter through location. I can't quite figure out how to do this. Also I want to have the filtering in Ajax. How do I just get the results without the whole page template? Should I edit the theme to exclude all the page stuff is a $_POST var is present? Or is there a less hacky way to do it?

I also need to be able to give different administrators rights over specific locations. eg an administrator for the Los Angeles part of the site.

http://smile4me.x24hr.com/drupal/install.php?profile=default&locale=en

hello i cant set up my DB

SYS:

win2003
php5
mysql5
apache2

it wont allow me to install to the DB i have already created

when i search thru the modules many are not updated to latest versions

so how hard is it to build modules for drupal?