Converting to Drupal

I've been an observer of Drupal over the years, occasionally installing it on a person site here or there but never using it was a professional scale publication platform.

I'm a web developer for a local newspaper company here and there's been talk about us needing to shift to a more Web 2.0 friendly CMS in the future. I've been tasked with researching and finding possible alternatives for us concerning the CMS market. One of the first things that popped into my head was using Drupal to accomplish what we needed.

However, before I get started and dive into this head first I wanted to ask a couple of questions from the community and maybe have a concern or two explained.

The main thing that needs to be accomplished here is the nightly, automated import of our stories. Right now this happens with our current CMS. The HTML files are dumped into a folder, a PHP script scrubs the data and then inserts it into our database, which our CMS then handles. My main concern is the import part.

Is there a module or something thereof that allows this kind of thing or am I looking at a completely custom solution? Keep in mind these are newspaper stories with all the corresponding author info, categories and headlines and that all needs to be brought over and functioning/search-able/readable in Drupal. Is this something I can realistically accomplish with Drupal?

Please do your best and help me, as am a junior developer and this is my first full time job 
My boss asked me to migrate to company website to drupal 6.6.
The website is structured as follow.

Primary links :
1/ Home
2/ About us
21/ Brochures
22/ Investors
23/ Careers
3/ Products
31/ Product 1
32/ Product 2
33/ Product 3
4/ Contact us

Hello friends,
I want to make a photo gallery with drupal 6.
which is the best solution where user can ..

1) Upload photos to particular album with title and footer
2) comment on photo

and admininistrator can ..
1) create albums
2) delete albums

and photos should be displayed as lightbox or with ajax or jquery.

tell me if you know any

i searched & tried something, but its getting complicated....

need your help.

I am successfully able to migrate users using user import module. The challenge, I am facing right now is when my .csv file has username column with dot in the column value (ex John.smith or jsmith@test.com), and mapping that column against username from user import module. User import module while updating the database, it stores the username without dot, but replacing dot with space (John smith or jsmith@test com) in the users table.

Hello,

i converted my Page to Drupal (YAML) but i dont like the Drupal menu (secondary links menu). My old page had a css file named format.css. Is it possible to use these styles for the new Drupal menu too?

The problem is that i have no experience with css. I anybody could do it for me or help me, i would pay it (by Paypal or a wished other method).

Please contact me via ICQ 366586052

Thanks
Stefan

Hi,

I'm starting a new project and I'd like to use drupal, its a big project with lots of different parts and I'm not sure where to start. The project (Real Estate website) will feature the following:

Home
Interactive Map
List of Houses
Picture Gallery
Video Gallery
Contact Form
Members

The homepage, interactive map and list of houses I have down pretty much, I downloaded CCK and created a new content type, thats fine.

Where I'm having trouble at the moment is the Members Area, I'd like to have a Profile Area where a user can log in and have a link to 'My Profile' where they can change all the info about them on the site but also subscribe or unsubscribe to/from a Campaign Monitor newsletter (I've downloaded the CM Module already, I just don't know if its possible to sub/unsub to it via a profile edit page)