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** Sorry had to double post as I posted it in the wrong page first time around **

Hi,

I'm completely new to this forum and Forum, so excuse the noob questions!

I'm trying to create a website where users can upload their own video clips. Is this possible with Drupal? If so what plug ins do I need to make it happen ? Are these plug ins free? and can these uploaded clips be displayed on the front page, in a grid formation?

thanks for any help.
flashculture

Hi,

I was not able to figure out myself where I can add Scripts to my Drupalsite. For example Google Analytics Tracker and/ Or BotTrap-Scripts. The last one for example must be the first piece of code before the Drupal code starts. In which file would I add such scripts/ codes? I tried various,...but it caused only trouble. Which would be the general file? Although I have a customized design I hope you can help me, at least give me a clue.

Thanks. Jab

Hello

I have been asked to install a complex Druapal infrastructure on a Microsoft machine. It does not matter if it's XP or 2000.

What i need to know prior to embarking on this long dark journey is quite simply:

1) How difficult is it? (i know very little about Windows)
2) Will it work the same or should i expect Drupal issues due to the Windows OS?

I've seen several posts, but no definitive answer.

Many thanks

LP

I'm thinking about Drupal for a school website. We've got a traditional CMS running very well (e107... I love it), but I really want to try to improve the community aspects of the site, and to make it more student/teacher orientated, and to see if they can make it grow rather than me doing all the development.

From what I've read so far, I think I could use:

- pages, for the brochure info about the school + monthly bulletin +
- admin blog, set up as a 'news section'
- multi-user blogs, for each teacher; to inform or start a class discussion (students responding by comments).
- forums, for student-led discussion; perhaps a forum for each year group, or a forum per subject.
- group blogging, for class-wide or school-wide discussion.
- wiki for class-wide collaborative projects; making topical pages of information.
- stories, for teachers to post teaching articles, examples of children's work, and a class diary kind-of-thing.

But I have questions!

1/
Why do none of the input boxes have a bbcode bar? Is the choice either nothing or a wysiwyg editor? If so, do the editors work well enough for children (and teachers) to use? Is TinyMCE better than the other one? Is the script they write very bloated? Would it be possible for users to copy/paste simple word docs into these editors? Is it easy to upload, use and manage images and files using them?

2/

I've begun playing around with a drupal installation on my godaddy webspace. I'm going through the "Getting Started" pdf, but I have questions that my lack of patience is forcing me to post :)

I design sites with photoshop/illustrator into Dreamweaver. Drupal uses this "Themes" thing.

Must I use these Themes or can I design the layout from scratch and use drupal to only manage the data and content?

-or-

Is there a way to incorporate my custom designs into the Themes system.

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Greetings.

I'm about to repurpose a server of mine for the task of running Apache+Drupal+MySQL for my department's Drupal-based web sites. (I'm finally giving up Plone!) But I'm relatively new to Linux server configuration, so I'm looking for a little guidance from those of you experienced in Linux and running a Drupal server.

The questions: What set of partitions are optimal, at what sizes, and -- here's the tricky part -- with what use of software RAID?

The raw material:

A nice fast HP server with dual 2.8GHz Xeon processors and 8GB RAM

1x 40GB SCSI drive

4x 80GB SCSI drives

Ubuntu Server (latest stable release as of whenever I actually get started here)

The use: a family of relatively low-demand web Drupal sites for a small university department and its projects, involving some but not loads of static file access (e.g., PDF libraries). Large storage capacity is nice, but not a big priority.

Previously, when running a Plone server, I had the entire "normal" Linux installation (Fedora Core 2 then) on the 40GB drive, and the four 80GB drives mounted as one supplemental RAID-5 array. I installed the server software (Apache, Zope+Plone) to that partition, with all datafiles.

That now strikes me as dumb. Sure, data access was fast and secure from drive failure, but all the boot, system, and swap stuff was vulnerable.