Before you start

Hi all,

I'm new to Drupal and facing quite a learning curve. I've read numerous blogs and forum posts, tutorials and viewed multiple screencasts to get myself started in Drupal. Currently I work with my own CMS which is very basic. Drupal has loads of options and is very scalable but some things I just don't understand or don't know where to start. For instance setting up an initial website structure.

With my current CMS I would start by creating 'pages' and place them in the correct order, for instance;

dear i have small ideas about drupal,

i want to add the 5 input text box..with xtest hyperlink..

tell me how to do that

I've built a laptop shop / community site from scratch but now that I am nearing the end of the coding I am realizing I might be better off with Drupal...

But I'm not sure how I would go about adding a whole admin section for product management, as you can see in the shots below:

Aministration:
Products List #1
Products List #2
Categories

Problem

I am currently developing a project for the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law to facilitate the timely distribution of legal research online. The specifications for the project are as follows:

• Each of the research centres (i.e. the different journals and publications) must have its own home, with users having different permissions in relation to the different sites (e.g. User A is an Editor of one publication, but only a Contributor to another one.)
• Each of these sites is to have a different visual style (not necessarily a different theme, though, see discussion below.)
• There should be shared user and session tables between the sites in order to have a single-point login/logout (actually, I am planning using LDAP authentication to log in using the University's central computing system.)

friends
am very new to drupal.
i read tutorial completely ,
in that they are talking about only setting ad permisions..

i want to know,
where i write my hello world code..

and how i run that hellow world program..

thanks in advance

I've worked with drupal in the past and was presented with a new site and have been considering (and hoping) using it again. The only part I'm not sure it will work for is multi-tiered access. For example, if I post a page I would like to assign level 1 access, level 2 access or level 1 & 2 access. etc. Thoughts?