By Tara1 on

Hi,

I am a designer and am just starting to get to grips with dreamweaver (mainly design view) I would like to start designing dynamic websites and wondered if drupal would be the answer.

What I would like to be able to do is have a site with sections. For example a funniest jokes you've heard section, where web visitors can type in a add their jokes. I have read a bit about Drupal, will this do what I want it to. Is it relatively easy to customise?

I work on Mac OSX

Many thanks

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Michael M commented

Drupal handles categories very well using taxonomy. To become more familiar with drupal's power, try:

- view the drupal intro video: http://www.benslade.com/drupal/
- play with drupal on http://opensourceCMS.com
- download and install drupal on your computer (you need to install MySQL and APACHE first. there are many self installers for this: LAMP and WAMP )

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Tara1 commented

Thanks for the video link which was very helpful, but I am still usure, will drupal allow web visitors to contribute information to the site? Please could anybody tell me what module this is called if it is available so I can read a bit about it.

Many thanks

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theichurch commented

Yes, Drupal has several modules that allow people to contribute to the site.

Some of them include blogs, page, story, and article. With some of the contributed modules and in the theming you can have a different theme (look) for each type of module.

There are also categories. These will allow you to organize things such as pages, stories, etc. These can even be themed.

Dreamweaver is a good tool to do webdesign. With any dynamic design you will need to learn some of the language it is written in. In this case PHP. Some of the things you will find in the manual in the Theme Developers Guide. I would recommend the PHPTemplate engine to help you with your theming. In 4.7 it is included by default.

Because of Drupal and the PHPTemplates incredible flexability I can not begin to explain it all here. But, the manual does a pretty good job.

I would say from what you described above, Yes, Drupal will work for you.