Hello...
I am VERY new to the whole CMS thing, and I would appreciate any help given. I have just started designing my website, which I want to have a forum, gallery, and storefront in it. My first go at it brought me to phpBB for the forum, and coppermine as the gallery, which i bridged so that I could use the same user database. For the store, I'm using a shopping cart program which I would like to keep separate from the rest of the site. Ultimately, I would like to make a community based website which would include a user driven blog, forums, gallery, and the store. I came across Drupal and after a little reading, i'm still not too sure if this is right for me? I also read a little on Joomla, which seems to have the things I need, but not without a bit of modifying. Could anyone point me in the right direction? If anyone has any suggestions on which route I could take or what I could look up, it would be much appreciated. My website is www.victorysquared.com .
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Dude, this is what drupal is
Dude, this is what drupal is built for. Check out e-Commerce or ubercart for your storefront, lightbox + imagefield / image module for your gallery, and the core modules forum and blog.
That is a far easier and simpler solution than trying to mish-mash different packages together.
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thank you
thank you for the quick reply! at least now i know i'm headed in the right direction and now i just need to weigh the pros and cons of drupal and joomla to see which one would be better suited for a newbie like me ^_^;
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I just described some of the differences to another user at http://drupal.org/node/375852#comment-1265550
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Yep-- this is EXACTLY what drupal excels at. Definitely give it a shot-- it'll be so much easier than creating and managing a 3 or 4 app mashup.
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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Lao Tzu
"God helps those who help themselves." - Ben Franklin
"Search is your best friend." - Worldfallz
example sites similar to mine?
Does anyone know of some sites that I could take a look at first hand that runs drupal in a similar way like my site?
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For some shopping cart sites see: http://www.ubercart.org/site
For some high profile sites see: http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites
For some case studies see: http://drupal.org/cases