hi guru's.
i'm building an online retail site requiring secure ecommerce, database product catalog covering up to 1000 items, rss, forums, and as much social networking tie ins as can be created.
i've got to evaluate three different frameworks: the shortlist is joomla, drupal and maybe dotnetnuke.
obviously i'd expect some pro durpal comment here. anyone care to point out the advantages of drupal over the other two, or the modules requiring consideration.
i haven't used either joomla or drupal before, but i've got aspx dot net experience...

Hi all, fairly new to drupal (8 days),
i managed to migrarte a medium sized (4k users, 12k articles)joomla site to drupal 6 with some ease, got my knowledge on views and taxonamy and all is well.
however, i want to migrate a Classic ASP/MSSQL site that i made to drupal, its a guitar tablature website, i cant seem to grasp how can i implement it on drupal, below is the functionality of the old site
old site:
breadcrumb style:
a vistor looking for tablature usually selects artist letter, then goes to a page with list of artists that begin with this letter, then he goes to the artist page which contains a list of the tablature available, then he clicks and view the tablature or downloads the file

hi all,
Although I have a good programer background, Im just starting with drupal.
Im starting a new e-commerse website. I plan to be using mainly already developed modules and, maybe, develop any.
And here comes the question: Should I install drupal 6 or 7?
Thanks.

Hello friends
I took time configuring Drupal and Ubercart.
As I can?:
1 home page
within the main page:
Link to Ubercart
Link to forum
Link to Blog
I want a home page with information and news. For the other information I have it on separate pages.
Thank you very much
Regards
P.D. Sorry for my English

My university is migrating a paper form to the web. I have installed CCK 6.x-3.x-dev and have figured out how to get Content Multigroups to work. Multigroup is working well for me in some of my forms, but I'm having trouble implementing one portion pictured in form-example.gif. The closest I am able to get to form-example.gif is pictured in 1.jpg, and the Manage Fields screen for that is pictured in 2.jpg. I believe that I can tell already that this is not going to give me what I want easily. Is there a better way of going about this or should I continue on the path I'm on, which is duplicating the years fields for each type of community and each type of housing/residence? I wish there were a way for me to reuse the group of 4 years fields, but I searched Google on "content type within a content type" and found nothing. (Perhaps I'm searching for the wrong thing?) Or, I guess another way would be if the content type could let me specify how many multiples and provide a label for each one. (Content Multigroup has something called subgroup labels which I tried but it didn't do what I expected, and I couldn't find any documentation or tutorials that explains what that feature is or how it works.)

Drupal as an alternative of PHP and Web Site Development Technologies
What Drupal can do for me?
I am into UNIX / Linux Administration type of job role and love to create web applications whenever I see there are tasks that can be automated. I have used PHP for my purposes and I have found it very flexible and easy to use and learn. In fact, I have learnt it by writing PHP scripts directly and experimenting with different outputs and failures until I get a desried output.
Okay, let me come to the main point now. Now I want to be a professional Web Site Developer. I have appeard in some interviews for that kind of job role. But I have failed on certain grounds which involve:

I've tried for several days making a detailed list in Drupal. Unfortunately i have absolutely no previous skills in making web pages. So i thought i should reach out to the community. I'm eager to learn, and i've tried looking through several videos, books and examples.
I made a exel example on how i would hope to make a catalog one day.
http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/7830/listv.png
But after my experience so far, making a list like this will require some difficult programming. So far I've tried with views and taxonomy, ubercart and e-commerce seemed to me, to have limitations which would make a list like that impossible.

Hi,
I'm trying to set up a site, where registered people can post blog-like stories (updated bia adding new posts) open to public comments. Now since the stories are told step-wise, depending on the author's free time, the comments just add up, and can make the reading of the original story quite difficult (you have to search for author's post within the sea of comments). So basicaly, I'm looking for an interesting way to avoid this, eg. some sort of hide/show comments feature, which would hid all comments besides those about the last story-update.
Secondly, the stories are often very picture heavy. To make the reading easier - and much faster - I'm also looking for a way to hide all pictures besides those included in the last 3 story-update by default, while leaving an option somewhere on the page to show all images.
And thridly, a way to export the whole story (with or without the comments, including a GNU-GPL type licence) to a downloadable pfd would be totally awesome.

Hi, hopefully this is the right place. :>
I'm relatively new to Drupal but, as a fellow code OCD freak, I fell in love with the Drupal way of doing things and here I am.
I'm more of a back-end programmer as opposed to a front-end designer and I was looking to develop a library type application which would allow a group of my friends to develop and collaborate stories for various role-playing characters (with, hopefully, the possibility to have multiple people co-author stories).
Is Drupal feasible for building a web application like this? :3 I've created some modules and themes before, so I know my way around there. I was just curious to know if it was or wasn't designed for doing something like this.

How much resources does a tracking and ecommerce drupal takes?
I was requesting server to enable the site on the VPS, but they were afraid it might kill the server, because in the pass a person used 3 joomla sites, and cause server to crash.
are there documentations referring to this?