Before you start

Hello!

I am pretty excited to be digging into Drupal for my latest project although I am finding it to have a bit of a steep learning curve (so much vocabulary to learn and understand!).

I am planning on building a site that is regional in nature and I want to offer two sides to the site - a community portion and an information portion. Basically I am looking to add the following features to the site:

User blogs
Forums
Directories
Articles
Calendars

I am a fictional author and I have decided to document the world I created and share it with others. My guess is the best way to deal with this is a Wiki system with myself as the sole author for now (until my passing day I'd wager) that supports taxonomy to contain the following key structure (With Templates for each catagory):

People
Places
Objects
Organizations
Races
Events
Plot Lines

Thanks to everyone who has helped get my Drupal install working. I have been playing around a bit with it and enjoy themes, etc.
I have been looking around for ways to launch my actual test site right now.

Currently I need to do something like this:
http://www.horizontech.org/drupal-5.7/www.horizontech.org

I wish I could just type in www.horizontech.org and the site would come up.

Hi :)

I am planning to make a News/Media portal website with some social networking touch as well.
For this project I cannot yet finalised that which CMS should I choose between Joomla and Drupal? I have used Joomla as a Test for building that kind of site and not yet Drupal and totally unaware of How Drupal works. I havent seen yet a robust site powered by joomla as a News/Media portal but seen many using drupal.

Please suggest me your expert analysis to put the foundations of this website with strong pillars.

welcome, this site discuss about travelling?

Hi,

Can Drupal handle somethign like this? http://www.j-guitar.com/sp/sea/elg_new_list_sam_0.html
My guess is it can but I cannot seem to implement it correctly. Any suggestions as to how I should get started? I was going to use the Beale Street theme but I'm confused, LOL

Thanks!