Before you start

Any opinions on the two CMSs? I know this might be like asking a Bostonian who their favorite baseball team is but I would love an honest opinion.

Does wordPress offer community mods?

I am looking to develop a local news site and i have seen with drupal you can select themes, but if i dont want a drupal theme i want a look i have had designed how hard is it to develop it with drupal for content management on the site i have designed for look and layout?

Do I need a domain name to use apache? I don't know what I want to call my site/blog but have some ideas for content. 1-4 separate blog pages, photo page, video page, a forum, probably some other stuff I find on Drupal mods.

I have downloaded Apache, MySQL, Drupal and PHP but have no idea how to install or get them working.

Please comment or email directly at unsetdeuxs@gmail.com

I will be up into the niht trying to figure this out and I would love some help.

Thanks

I have been reading alot about drupal, but i am curious about the experiences people have had with using it for a ecommerce site. How many of you are using drupal for an ecommerce site and what advice would you give me with using this software. Does the latest version of the product come bundled with all the software necessary to do this or will i need to download other addins?

thanks in advance...

Greetings all,

I've recently installed Drupal 6 and I'm working on putting everything together. However, after reading some of the online documentation and pulling a few modules I think are pertinent, I'm not 100% sure on how to proceed. I know Drupal is highly flexible and I can make it work, but I'm also looking for a few "best practice" type things for my structure.

A bit of background. I currently maintain and develop three web sites / applications (http://www.netrep.net, http://www.roninpro.com, http://www.deckstudio.net) and forums that support it (http://www.deckstudio.net/forums). These were originally maintained by three separate folks, but now I'm running them all and am looking for a way of unifying the programs since they are related, and also simplify some of the updates, download resources, etc.

I'm just not sure the best way to organize all of this. Ideally I want a basic theme with a few color variations based on each product, which I've found, but I'm not sure if I need to use Taxonomy for each product (RONIN, Deck Studio, netrep) or use the domain module that I've seen. I do have announcements when updates are made, and I'm thinking that using the blog feature would be best for these kind of things since they can be subscribed to. I love the book module for online documentation and FAQ, the forums help with issues that users have.

Hi all,

I'm in charge of IT for a Professional Services CO-OP ( don't know if that's the correct translation, we call it "cooperativa", see http://www.ica.coop/al-ica/ for more info ).

Most of our members do not have enough time/money/experience to set up their own ecommerce website, so we want to create one, to be "shared" by all of our Members, and be easier to find by Customers.

This would be workflow for a CO-OP Member:

1 A CO-OP member joins the site, to offer his/her professional services
* This should be regulated so that only "valid" CO-OP members can join and offer their services, not open for all public
* There will probably be manual "acceptance" of new CO-OP members requests. Don't expect more than 30 new requests per week
* Also need to disable or "inactivate" member account when he/she leaves the CO-OP
2 The member updates their own "profile page"
* This profile page has BIO, experience, pictures, testimonials, etc
* The profile page can be seen by other CO-OP members and Customers (explained below), but only edited by creator
3 The member updates their "services offered"
* He/She selects the checkboxes of the particular services that will be offered, from a "catalog" of professional services (single "main" catalog for the whole CO-OP)
* He/She selects the price to be charged for each service