Before you start

hi drupal-users!

we are currently searching/evaluating for a cms suitable for a planned (more or less scientifical) project.

we don't want to use typo3 as of reasons of "personal dislike" and narrowed our search down to "Drupal", "Ez Publish" and "ZMS".

here is what we need:

Hello everyone,
I read Drupal Multi-site nodes and related issues, even for "dummies" one. But I don't understand some parts. I will be happy if there are some more clear answers.

My plan is to make a website with different subdomains.
www.example.com is my main website, and sub1.example.com, sub2.example.com ... will be my other websites.

1. Now before everything, do I have to install Drupal into every single subdomains too?

I was at Drupal PDX today. Being new to Drupal it was very informative, very helpful... Great bunch of geeks! Very interesting to know that drupal.org is hosted just ten miles away! We will definately be using Drupal for many projects in the future!

Question I'm still wondering about is in the context of Drupal and a site called http://oregoncars247.com, a site I started two years ago as I was cutting my teeth with PHP/MySQL. I sure would like to ditch the authentication system for Drupals. Many other modules I'd like to take advantage of.

One hurdle would be that the Drupal image module doesn't do watermarks yet. I use phpThumbs. I can't do without the watermarks, but it sounds like I can still use phpThumbs within Drupal.

I guess my biggest concern is the SEO. I am dynamically setting the title tags and h1 tags and meta tags for each individual listing (such as "Used 1998 Ford Explorer for sale in Albany, Oregon") which is working pretty well. I guess what I'm really wondering is how difficult is it going to be to migrate the dynamic nature of this site (http://oregoncars247.com) to Drupal.

Hello all,

I'm looking to create a website that will allow users to write books. This will allow them to create chapters within novels and edit them as they wish. As it stands, I need them to be able to create books as they please, but only see their own books/chapters unless they choose to directly link to a book/chapter. Can Drupal do this? If so, what modules can I use to accomplish this?

Thank you all!

I'm thinking of setting up a site with Drupal and it will have to have some sort of discussion forum. I've done some research on Drupal's forum capabilities and I've found a lot of complaining about the default forums in Drupal not being very forum-like. These complaints all seem to be from a few years ago so I'm wondering if they're more like typical forums now. Is this forum itself an example of what they're like in a default install of Drupal 5.7?

Hello
I am planning to create a community humor portal with Drupal. I am not experienced at all with Drupal, but I'm quite experienced in coding with Wordpress and Joomla. I would appreciate if someone could help me out by giving me advice on which version of Drupal and also what modules I should use for my site.