Before you start

I currently am using Wordpress and have reached the limits of its possibilities.

I need the following features for my website that I want to build:

Multiple Blogs
Static pages
User Forum that connects with blog
User pages (something like myspace)
Comparison shopping tool ( i dont know if one has been developed yet for drupal, but something that can tie in with users)
Podcasting
Video serving

Out-of-the box Wordpress is horrible for SEO purposes. Does Drupal have SEO improving plugins or hacks?

Great thanks everyone!

How can i solve this message :

user warning: Access denied for user 'dehenk'@'localhost' to database 'dehenk' query: LOCK TABLES cache_menu WRITE

Thanks,
Henk.

Hello,

I am completely new at Drupal's world (I am managing a site with phpnuke) and I have just downloaded the module "ads". Since I am new here, I don't know if this is the correct place to ask for help or not. It it's not, please forgive me and address me to the correct place.

After installing that module, and enabling all its components, I don't know how can I select what to be advertised (mainly adsense adverts, but I will have some text link ads as well and a couple of banners).

Hi folks --

I am planning an online publication, and am quite new to php. I had started off setting up the site using b2evolution but even this early in the test/learn/plan/prep phase I have already outgrown it. I needed a more complex taxonomy and, well, when it comes to taxonomy it seems that Drupal rocks.

QUESTION 1: DO I NEED MODULES FOR A SIMPLE BLOG?

While I wish, further down the road, to have a sophisticated site with "Sections" like a newspaper, a sort of recursive taxonomy, multiple authors, at first I just wish to bang out some blog entries. Does Drupal do this just by installing the core or do i need to install modules as well? I am not trying to be lazy by asking -- i've already spent hours just reading docs on this site and have found descriptions of what various modules do, but I still don't understand what "plain vanilla" core Drupal does out-of-the-box (as it were).

So, can I just install Drupal out of the box and start blogging? Also, would I be complicating my life by planning to add other modules later on, i.e., is it necessary or preferable to install them at the same time as Drupal?

QUESTION 2: install 5 or 6?

please,who has an id of yahoo messenger to give me a hand? i'm in big trouble.thanks . my yahoo id : mony_a18

Hello,

I am currently using phpnuke and I want to migrate my site to drupal. One of the most successful sections of my site is the Downloads sections, which displays a series of categorized downloads only available for users. I would like to keep this useful sections but I haven't seen anything similar in drupal.

Each donwload has a title, a description, and a a link to a file that can be stored either in my server or others'. Donwloads can be commented and rated.

Does it exist for Drupal? And something like that but for links?

Thank you