By Malderius on
(poor translation from Italian)
Hi,
my name is Matteo and I'm an Italian web designer.
I love a lot to walk so I'm managing to cover the whole distance between Canterbury to Rome on foot, 1700Km in more or less 90 days.
I need to built a site with:
- Google Maps integration
- the possibility to publish images, videos and texts simply sending a mail to the site, like Blogger by Google do
- a forum and a download area for press comunications and so on
- a personalized "medieval style" templates because the path I'll follow was an important commercial way in 1000 a.D.
Can Drupal CMS help me with this mighty project?
Thank you for your help.
Matteo
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You can do all of this with
You can do all of this with Drupal 5.7. Mapping features aren't ready for Drupal 6 yet.
Thank you for your answer,
Thank you for your answer,
I think I can wait because the Italian translation for Drupal 6.2 isn't ready yet. Now my first goal is install Drupal on my PC using XAMPP distribution, then I have to built a "medieval style" theme based on Salmander (I write Florian if he can help me) and to learn how Drupal manage contents and databases.
Another question for you all: how many MySQL databases Drupal uses? How big they can become in a site like the one I want to build?
Thank you in advantage for yours answers.
Matteo
It will use one database
It will use one database with many tables. How big it becomes will depend on the modules installed and the data entered.
Ok, perfect, one database
Ok, perfect, one database with many tables. All media type are in the database or are in a dedicated folder?
i.e. If I create a page with a video, can I put the video file in a directory .../video and then embed it in a page that is stored in the database so that only the text is in the database. I ask that because my hosting provider (Aruba) give me infinite space on my domain but only 50Mb for the MySQL database...
I have to decide if it's enough or not.
Thank you all
Matteo
Normally you would store
Normally you would store your media in a file system directory. The default path seems to be /sites/all/files in a Drupal installation but you can change that. Your maps won't be stored technically so won't take up space. Any photos in a gallery or video files will probably be best served from the file system and not your database. This leaves just text and structure taking up database space.
To put your 50 megabytes in perspective for some structure and text storage. A fairly blank Drupal 6.2 install that I have has 76 tables and takes up 4.5 megabytes of space. I could start entering data into it now but when I am done setting up modules and content-types it will probably take 10 megabytes of space. Each user in the database takes up 40 kilobytes of space. So that is 25 users per megabytes. Your average novel takes up 600 kb of space or roughly 1.7 novels per megabyte. You'll probably have about 40 megabytes for content after you set up Drupal to your liking. Add another 5 megabytes of space for user data. Or about the room to store approximately 60 novels which is more than most authors create in a lifetime.
By the time you start running out of space, hopefully simple monetization like Adsense will help you improve what is allotted.
Thank you very much for your
Thank you very much for your fantastic help and patient with me. I see a module for AdSense is not ready yet, so I have to wait. At the moment I'm trying to use the rotor banner to promote my future sponsors but I find problems managing this module, I can't hide the Tab text required for this kind of content.
I have another question: can I use a module putting it in different block position? Now I'm testing the salamander theme with it's 6 extra regions and I thought to put a rotor banner module in the header block for little banners and another rotor banner module in the right sidebar block for big vertical banner. When I go to Administer >> Bloks and put rotor banner module in the header, is it possible to duplicate it and put another rotor in the sidebar?
Thank for your help
Matteo
You could put adsense code
You could put adsense code within a new block and insert it on your pages that way. The module just makes things easier to modify later but blocks work perfectly well to start.
I haven't figured out how to use the same block in two locations or duplicate a block created by a module yet sorry.
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Take for example the banner
Take for example the banner rotor module, I have two kind of banners, standard 120x60 and tower banner 200x600 so I managed to add a rotor banner module just under the login block and another rotor banner module in the right sidebar standing alone.
I downloaded and installed the rotor banner module but in the admin environment I can set only one position for the block and not two as I like. Is that possible?
Thank you all.
Maldè
I need to create Drupal
I need to create Drupal pages simply sending by mail to the site the content I want to be published, like Blogger by Google do.
Can someone suggest me a module that do this for Drupal 6.2?
Thanks all
Maldè
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Mailhandler
I found the Mailhandler module some time ago. It seems fairly feature complete.
good
thanks
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