Before you start

AS much as I like the look of Drupal, I do not like the forum. WOuld it beok if instead of using the forum, I replaced the forum folder, with the SMF Forum instead?

I'm considering using Drupal for a web site for our horse farm. (Currently, we have almost nothing, so no history to port.)

I'm trying to grok the Drupal way of doing things, but I've only gotten a little way into it with the time I have for this project. I'm a programmer by trade (Java) and know a little HTML and CSS, so that might help when making explanations. Unfortunately, I don't have much php or database experience. (I do know some SQL.) I'm reading through the IBM articles (about half way through), but at the moment, am having trouble applying the information to my site.

Basic desired design:

I'd like different main sections for the site -- about us, news, shows, horses for sale, the general breeding program, etc.

I'd like /horses/ or similar to be pages about individual horses. Such a page would indicate whether that horse was for sale, maybe have a picture with links to more, some paragraphs of description and then maybe a pedigree chart. I'd also like to be able to include side blocks with references to other parts of the site like shows or news if they relate at all to this horse.

Here's what I think I know :-)....

This is my first post here. Found Drupal through the Joomla site while I researched for a solution to the following problem. So far this looks like a great project that would be fun to work with but here is my dilemma!

I want to develop a CMS that can handle users in the following manner.

User A has access to general information including public forum access.

User B has special privileges that will allow them User A's access level plus access to secure information and access to a private forum.

Hello everyone, my webhost provider switched off my website today because profile.php was running all the time. What can I do about this?

Cheers

Anybody know if Drupal can handle “wizard” style tagging/categorizing?

Example of what I need:

1. select department
2. select team (only teams in selected department)
3. select incident type (only incident types associated to selected team)

I have a requirement for a somewhat simple event posting application and don’t want to have to write the entire thing by hand if I don’t have to. If Drupal can't do it I am open to using other frameworks. I can use PHP, Java, or .NET.

-Thanks

We are redesigning the Nabuur website. We connect communities from the developing world with people with knowledge that could help develop projects. We would like to use Google maps like technology to display geographical content.

The obvious use for this is to display the various Nabuur villages on a map. However this could easily be extended to include the location of tasks, resources, users that assist a village etc.