Before you start

I'm completely new to web development. I've been looking around for a couple of months, and drupal seems to be the best cms that I can find. In fact, it looks amazing! I've found a very reasonable looking hosting plan with siteground. (I'm checking for feedback and tips if anyone has any)

I actually have a couple of questions:

1) I've been developing site templates for a band I'm involved with through Photoshop (CS3). How hard would it be to apply those to drupal, or to create my own theme? I can do very little html and really nothing else. Should I just look into having someone else do that for me? Is there some kind of application that would facilitate the process for me? Or maybe I could just adapt the ideas I have and add in the images that I've created....

2) I would like to have custom data reports. Specifically, I'd like to view a page where I can see a numbered list of users who logged in. Not just how many times they logged in, but an actual numbered list. For example, let's say I have a user called "Pete". Pete logged in as the 1, 32, and 64 user today. So, this list is also able to generate itself from a 24 hour span, say from midnight to midnight. Is this possible and how do I do it?

I want to start a flash game site. Is it possible to use Drupal for this purpose. I will add the swf files manually on a one by one basis.

I don't know how to tweak Drupal. Is it possible to use Drupal for flash game site just like posting a text. May be using some kind of module / plugin.

I must be able to add new flash games with ease. Please suggest if Drupal would be apt for this.

Hey everyone,

Never used Drupal before but it looks very promising, just wondering if it will do the following for me:

1. Allow certain users certain access to pages or files (PDF's, mp3's etc...). I understand I can create a group for these and then the user can be assigned to them, can this be automated? Can it be setup so user1 can see page "a" and user 2 can only see page "b"?

Hi

I'm being asked to create a small internal website for a company.
The content would be mainly news. Small news, nothing too fancy.
There are really specific needs for the frontpage, for the website layout...
I fear Drupal is sort of overkill for this need...

What would be contained in the website :
1- news
2- projects : no project management needed. A project is only containing a description of the project, links to the documentations and packages... Some projects will be marked as being only "ideas" and requiring some votes... If votes are high enough, they may be promoted to projects (but not automatically)
3- "technical unit" : an example of technical unit is postgresql. The technical units contains links to the documentations & packages, what is the latest validated release...
4- extended user informations : for instance, we must be able to see who is the manager of who, who is working on what...

Some problems I have with drupal :
1- not all modules are compatible with drupal 6 => I can't use drupal 6 (examples of modules needed : LDAP integration, view...)
2- PostgreSQL compatibility is not perfect in existing modules (I had several times problems when installing a module, and MySQL is forbidden)

Hi everyone.

I am not very familiar with Drupal, but found it some time ago and bookmarked it. Today, I am finally in need of a quality, open-source CMS that will fit my needs. I am wondering if that CMS could be Drupal, so to find out, I am compiling a list of what I need as the CMS complete features aren't listed on the website. Please, if you know about this CMS, tell me if this CMS will be suitable for my needs.

I want to ideally use this CMS for my e-commerce website, and I need to be able to...

* Create users and different user groups with different permissions (permissions can be totally customizable?)
* Create categories and subcategories.
* Create content pages in categories and subcategories.
* Search-Engine Friendly URLs (can be manually inputted such as if I want thisname.html or this-name.html page).
* Edit meta tags throughout the site and its pages..including main page
* Control over page templates
* Assign some user groups to be able to add content to specific categories as well as some usergroups to be able to add, edit, delete, and ban users.

I am currently having some problem with my Drupal installation on my VPS account (Debian 4, Intel ntel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5310 @ 1.60GHz, 512MB RAM). When running Apache Benchmark I quickly with values -n 100 and -c 10 (#ab -n 100 -c 10 -v 2 http://domain.com) I get these figures:

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Server Software: Apache/2.2.8
Server Hostname: domain
Server Port: 80

Document Path: /
Document Length: 12855 bytes

Concurrency Level: 10
Time taken for tests: 49.105257 seconds
Complete requests: 100
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 1343300 bytes
HTML transferred: 1285500 bytes
Requests per second: 2.04 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 4910.526 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 491.053 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 26.70 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 0 0.1 0 1
Processing: 471 4808 11216.5 995 48409
Waiting: 448 4780 11210.4 967 48385
Total: 471 4808 11216.5 995 48410

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 995
66% 1478
75% 2636
80% 3162
90% 9371
95% 42338
98% 44951
99% 48410
100% 48410 (longest request)
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