Hello!

Just this past week, my university hired me to assist the current webmaster in looking at a modern rebuild and re-design of the Redeemer University College website. Now, I am a long-time Drupal user, having used it for a number of my sites, and I am fairly confident that this would be a great application of Drupal.

The thing is, although I am fairly confident with Drupal, it's various modules etc., I have never worked on a project of this size before. To help me get my footing, as it were, I would like to appeal to the broader Drupal community for some suggestions and support with this project.

Before I continue, I would just like to make a few quick points:

The tech departments at Universities in North America keep in contact with one another quite regularily, exchanging ideas, suggestions, what worked for them etc. If we can build a great university website for the school using Drupal, I can see it being adopted by a number of major institutions. I know for a fact that a bunch of schools are currently looking towards updating the technology running their sites. If we make Drupal work, and work well, it may get a lot of institutional support and recognition.

The current website can be viewed at http://www.redeemer.ca. As I am sure everyone can see, the website is straight out of the late '90s. It is a sprawling static behemoth. The maintenance issues with the site are ever increasing, and there is a distinct lack of uniformity in style and substance across the entire site.

Hi, I'm new to Drupal and am busy reading the docs and testing some of the modules, including CCK. It's a very impressive CMS and community!

I'd like to port an existing Perl/CGI site over to Drupal 4.7.x to take advantages of its many features, but am still not sure of the correct approach. Hopefully someone can point me to the right module/docs for completing this :).

The site to be ported has information about users. That information will be edited by each user or the site admin. Some of that information is a one-to-one relationship with each user (e.g., name, class year, etc.), while the rest is a one-to-many relationship (e.g., degrees earned (each having the name, field of study, and graduation year of the institution), papers published, etc.). Here is an example:

User1
-- [Name] John Doe
-- [Class] 1995
-- [Major] Engineering
-- [Graduate Education]
-- -- [School] Georgia Tech
-- -- -- [Year] 2000
-- -- -- [Degree Type] MS
-- -- -- [Major] Engineering
-- -- [School] MIT
-- -- -- [Year] 2005
-- -- -- [Degree Type] PhD
-- -- -- [Major] Engineering

but I don't know in advance how many schools/papers/etc. the user will be enternig. I'd like to get some input on the best way to handle this type of "node", or if that is even the correct approach.

Can I create a node that will ask for/allow multiple entries of certain data types? If so, can you please point me to the handbook/forum topic that explains how to do this?

I was trying to migrate an existing phpbb2/PostgreSQL install to a new Drupal/MySQL install on the same machine. I found that my version of MySQL was so old, it did not support "CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES" which appears to be required for phpbb2drupal.

So, I'm building out a new box using an up-to-date OS and MySQL, and I'm hoping to import the data directly from the PostgreSQL database on the existing box (on the same LAN). Can this be done, or do I need to dump the data, restore it to the PostgreSQL db on the new box, then import? I'm trying to minimize my downtime.

A friend of my has designed a web site. bascically a static (brochure) kind of web and he would like to be able to add shopping cart functionality to it.

i was wondering if the drupal ecommerce module could be used to hang off of the existing web where the would drill down on manufacturer --> brand --> product category and using an id from the product category, query the database and display the images, prices, etc of products related to the selected product category.

HI
I am new to drupal..I have been using mambo/Joomla for quite some time, but now need to migrate to drupal.
I find a lot of difference from these CMSs. I find drupal pretty confusing.Can any one provide me a link to a good documentation for using drupal. i searched a lot but I could not find one explaining working with drupal.
So please
thanks
drupal_india

Hi,
I currently run a site which revolves arround phpBB2 (with mxBB portal- http://www.mx-system.com )
The user roles of phpBB make it very easy to have blocks and menu items shown depending on user role.