Converting to Drupal

Hey everyone,

Hello everyone ..
My name is Sizar and im totally new to drupal , so this is my first time installing drupal .
what i really need to know is how to work with it and how to create my first site with it ,
it will be more helpful to find a tutorial or something like that . thank you so much for your support.

I think I may already know my answer to this question considering that it's on a Drupal forum but let me describe the situation.

I'm a big fan of Drupal although I've never been able to master it. I understand how to set things. I understand the principles of the content types, permissions, menus, blocks, etc. I think I understand a lot however I do not have a handle on theming for Drupal. Despite my best efforts. I probably don't have a handle on a number of aspects of Drupal quite yet.

I currently work for a non-profit foundation that has many micro-sites and develops new ones often. I'm their new and only web developer and so what I propose will more or less be dependent on me. I'm seeking the best solution for them. They need to be able to communicate their messages across all their sites (or selected ones) as easily as possible. I have no experience dealing with multiple sites under Drupal so I'd like to know how easy it would be to do this.

For example they may want a newsfeed on all their micro-sites. Let's say there's micro-site A, B and C. They want to be able to write a post and decide that it'll appear on A and C. Then they'll write another post and decide it will only appear on B. And so forth. Is this possible with Drupal?

I am in the process of trying to launch a new Drupal website, but am having some issues with migrating the phpBB forum database over to the new Drupal forum. From what I can tell, the old forum was using phpBB 3.0.3. I am currently running Drupal 6.19 on my server. I have installed and activated the php2drupal module (version 2.1), bbcode module, phpass module, and the privatemsg module. other than an error for the privatemsg module because the field does not exist on the forum, the site runs with no errors. I have successfully migrated the forum database once before on my computer back in October 2010, but now when I try to migrate the forum over on the web server, it does not work completely.

hello all,
recently, i've been learning drupal and now i got the gist on how to use drupal. i find it very flexible than joomla. i'm wondering what are the steps into migrating from joomla to drupal.. i have a live website right now using joomla and i would love to migrate all my sites to drupal..

thanks!
RLyn

I did not exactly know where to put his, but I think this is the right forum :)

Here is my problem:
I had a Drupal 6 installation with CCK (ofcourse :P). I made some content types, each with some custom fields. I wanted to have a fresh start with Drupal 7, so I backed up everything, removed the files from the host and installed Drupal 7.
What I want to do know, is restore all the content types + nodes and fields. Normally I would just copy paste the database tables via phpmyadmin, but I saw that the structure changed alot since D6 :/