Converting to Drupal

We are a small college in Burlington, Vermont, USA and in dire need of bringing our website to the next level. Currently it is designed in Dreamweaver, very low key and was maintained by my previous predecessor alone. So, when people from other department need to upgrade their information, they get very frustrated by not being able to change it. Thought it would be wise to migrate to a CMS platform and create a complete redesign of the site: http://www.burlington.edu

Hi,

I am the owner of Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine (www.pocketpcmag.com). Our current site has tons of great content, but is a mess on many levels -- with forums, blogs, magazine archives, a large product database, a how-to database, and much more. We have just created a new VIP site for subscribers - the Browse How-to db is in Drupal (www.PocketPCmag.com/vip).

We are in process of moving our data from various existing modules from our main site into Drupal. We are now faced with the task of creating a taxonomy (or more than one taxonomy). The taxonomy seems fundamental for our goal of creating various views of our content. So, we want to do it right the first time. We have a number of existing "taxonomies" in our current site, and we want to preserve the good information and translate it in a way that makes sense for the future.

First, I want to verify -- are these rules of thumb true, given to us by a contractor with familiarity with Drupal true?

- Better to have as few taxonomies as possible (ideally just 1)
- Better to keep taxonomy flat rather than in hierarchy

Here are a few examples of existing taxonomies on our current site:

- We have a product database and a software awards structure (Encyclopedia of Software and Accessories http://www.pocketpcmag.com/_enc/encyclopedia.asp and www.pocketpcmag.com/awards.)

am pratik. am not new in web site developing area but new to drupal. from last 4 years am in this field. i work alot on html css. my 20 website r online.
but now i want create web site using drupal .
but dont know how to do that.very much confuse wat to do?????
one more thing am maitaining web site that is fully made in html. i want convert that web site in drupal can i do that hoe to do that.
n how to start creating web site using drupal
plzzzzzzzzzzzzzz help me am in need

Hi There -

Am in the middle of converting an old site to Drupal. Right now I have a table and I need to convert the data from a table into CCK nodes. I believe that I'll use drupal_execute and/or node_save, but I'm not final on it. Big can-o-worms.

Whatever way I'm going to do it (and I'll be happy to take advice) I'm going to need to put data from somewhere into many fields in the CCK node.

I'm going to need to address that field somehow.

I have the devel module installed, and when I click on the dev load tab, I see all of the bits and pieces of the node. I have some experience with php, but I wouldn't call myself an experienced programmer.

Here's a link to where someone was able to save a node programmatically: http://drupal.org/node/178506

Here's what he did:

$node = new StdClass();
//creating a bare node

$node->type = 'answer';
//giving it type

$node->status = 1;
//give it a published staus

$node->title = "Step up to the FLava";
//gives title

$node->body = "Body Body body";
//gives body

node_save($node);
//save it and give it the rest of the attributes 

Hey all,

I've had a flash animation site since 1999 call Killfrog.com

Last year I changed the wholes site over to Joomla CMS but I decided to switch to Drupal and wanted to know if any one had
any super ninja tricks or thoughts (.SWF issues , mods and other stuff) that would help me build a killer site.

peace
-kev

Hi all,

There is very usefull feature in the wordpress:
In the "Before a comment appears:" option list there is an option:
"Comment author must have a previously approved comment"

Turning it on allows to approve each user's comment only once, all other comments from this user in the future will be approved automatically. This is great help in big discussions with non-registered users when they don't need to wait for admin to approve them again and again.

Is there any way doing something like this in the Drupal?