Before you start

I have a client that runs some sites who wants me to provide the following ..

"A backend CMS that can accommodate content display on up to 10 typical
members area sites and tours."

Is it possible for Drupal to do this? i.e. allow her to manage multiple sites/content and membership from one backend?

TIA
rich

Wondering if a Fantastico installed Drupal can be updated when a new version comes out? hopefully without losing any data.

Thanks...gray97

I will have some content living and managed in Drupal.

However, some other content source will live on my desktop in a non-Drupal form. I can generate HTML from this content, and would like to post it to my Drupal site (e.g. as a story node, book node, etc.)

Is this possble? Would I need to use something like XMLRPC to do it? Any other options?

drupalers please advise

im new to drupal and am looking into using it as a cms for a project gallery. all projects will be categorized into one of 8 categories [static]. each project will have -

- title
- description
- primary pic
- more pics [preferably unspecified number but can go for a limit of 20 pics as well]

each pic [primary and the rest] will have a title / thumb / medium size and full size

basic gallery page structure :

I Really Like Drupal

I really like the way Drupal all works together, kind of like one big message board with places for articles, etc. For my purposes, it is much better than a plain webboard. I like the way that the "Recent Posts" shows everything going on from all over the website. This is great for my Upholstery Information Website, which is still in development. However .....

Church Website Has Specific Needs

Can someone tell me, and give me live examples, of any Community Interactive features Drupal has, or that can be put together. For my church website, besides experimenting with Drupal, I've been looking atJoomla!, mainly because it has some Community Interactive components seem to be missing from Drupal, specifically, User Home Pages, Community Builder, Sections, and a few others that I can't think of right now. I'd like to have the church website be a good community style website, with a section similar to MySpace and Elgg, where members have have personal spaces, home pages, pictures, blogs, friends, etc. I realize that Drupal is capable of some of those things, but not as easily (for the users) as MySpace and Elgg. On that side, I have hears something about Drupal and Elgg being somehow integrated. Elgg, Drupal, and Moodle -- the components of an online learning environment That would be a real big draw for me. However, who knows when or if that will actually happen.

I am going to drupalize/joomalize/mambolize or whatever this site: http://www.aksjeskolen.no (this is the unfinished website, and it is exactly how I want the design to appear).

This is all I need from the CMS

Publishers need functionality to
1. log in
2. view and edit articles
3. post new articles

(articles will be displayes both on the front page, with an thumbnail, title and a short description)