Before you start

Hello,

Not sure if Drupal is the right solution for me or not -

I have a client who has ~800 domain names that have been sitting with a parking host. There is no content on these pages currently other than some links from the parking host. The parking host gets 80% of the profits (last month, for example, my client made $120 net - or 20% of the total revenue generated).

He now wants to take control of those 800 domain names and create a one-page (for now) template that can be used for each domain. Depending on the domain, the content (all dynamically pulled in from various sources including Amazon-supplied videos, AdSense ads, etc) would change.

I am a flash developer with some basic xhtml/css/php experience (in other words, I've put together static sites that validate, custom WordPress themes, etc, but I'm definitely not great with the non-flash-based web).

The client requesting me to do this has been warned that I have zero experience in this area, but he is comfortable with me and trusts me and insists that I attempt it. I'd like to give it a go.

I recently downloaded 6.2 but could not get through with what I intended because many of features I am interested in are still not fully developed.I could not get tinymce,panels,views,pathauto to work on drupal 6.
I have a site running on drupal 5.2 and I am very happy with it and the vast amount of contributed features that I use on the site.
I wish someone can give me the difference between the 5.7 and 6.2

I would like to use Drupal to create a site that has multiple levels of authority and access, depending on the group that the user is in.

The authority would go..

Admin
Employee
Group
--Group Admin
----Group User
Anonymous

The Admin has all the authority and can go anywhere and view anything and they can create accounts and assign them to any Group as well as create any type of content.
The Employee can do the same things as the Admin, just not update the sites modules, and other bits, but they can create any type of content and create any user and assign them to specific Groups.

Then there will be an unlimited amount of Groups that can be created. Each Group will be composed of a Group Admin and Group Users

The Group Admin can create users, but only assign them to their specific Group. They create content, but that content is only viewable by the people in their Group (and up), and they can moderate any and all content created within their Group.

Group Users can create content for their Group, and put in revisions, but they have to be approved, either by the Group Admin or by an Employee or the Admin.

Hello people and congrats for your wonderful forum!

I'm looking for a framework to develop a medium-sized application (an application like a document management system) and I would like to ask if drupal is the appropriate solution to my needs.

First of all how many time will I need to learn Drupal?
And of course is there any module/add-on in Drupal like a RAD tool? Is it customizable and flexible?

Thanks all of you for your answers.
Panagiotis

Hello

Is there a way to show the latest posts from IPB on a drupal website?