Drupal 4.7.x

Hello All and thanks for taking the time to read this,

I want to make a site where people can make groups. Ok Everyone wants that these days.

I am different in that I want people to be able to hide their profile, blog, and any other personal information from people not in their groups.

I would like to have groups have their own private forum (phpBB) and thier own private galleries.

I would love if the users could have a wordpress Blog and choose if it is public or priviate or semi private (Group access).

I'm a Drupal newbie but am pretty good at coding & computers - BUT I need to build a CMS site that will have many in-house end-user web 'authors' from different departments in our Non-Profit that want to add pages, add sections, create/modify content. We want to add PUBLIC user access later. I'm using 4.7b4, testing on OS X Apache 1.3something

Specifically:

Assume my authors don't know HTML and aren't too tech savvy

[1] Authors can:
a. load pre-designed page templates to customize with their own content (fckeditor? +css)
b. use wysiwyg editor to edit/add content (fckeditor?)
c. Upload images that will be placed into wysiwyg layout (fckeditor?)
d. Upload PDF & word documents that will be linked from their page (upload module?)
e. Ideally, allow uploads to be organized on server in folders - at minimum by file type, at best in detailed folder hierarchy
f. Add News Items consisting of text, links, PDFs (story w/weblinks, upload module?)

[2] Site capabilities:
a. Show top 'n' news items on front page (php snippet)
b. Send newsletters out to targetted groups (once we allow public users) (simplenews wasnt working on 4.7b4)
c. Allow for public user to create custom front page (ie. see news only for a specific taxonomy)
d. Search tool (use search module - i had trouble making it come up with results from stories)
e. Have a news/press release page

Hi,

I would like to know if there is a way to allow users to:

1/ Edit their post only if they have not yet been published (because what use is the moderation then?)
2/ At the same time, do not allow them to destroy their post if they have been published (so perhaps it is the same thing as first point)

Or perhaps, we can keep the second point, and allow them to edit even published posts, but then, posts should be unpublished automatically to go again in moderation queue...

I would like to make a 2-level navigation with Drupal 4.7.0b4 with a primary horizontal menu at the top and a secondary vertically to the left of the screen. I don't want the 1st-level entries to appear on the 2nd-level menu. I tried a lot of things but nothing worked. How would you approach the problem?

I try to import the german .po file for beta 4.7 and get the following error:

The translation import of de.po failed.

What can I do?

I have had a user submit a patch to the Meta theme and I am unsure what to do. Here are two articles I just read about the situation of using $directory or path_to_them()

If anyone has any pointers, I would greatly appreciate it. The "Converting 4.6 themes to 4.7" mentioned that base href head tag is dead, but I do see it in my 4.7b4 version and I'm not sure what the plan is. Will it be removed on the next build? Should I use $directory and not path_to_theme()