General Features

Collaborative Book - Our unique collaborative book feature lets you setup a "book" and then authorize other individuals to contribute content.detailed information

Friendly URLs - Drupal uses Apache's mod_rewrite to enable customizable URLs that are both user and search engine friendly.

Modules - The Drupal community has contributed many modules which provide functionality that extend Drupal core.

Online help - Like many Open Source projects, we can't say that our online help is perfect but have built a robust online help system built into the core help text. Available to you on your own site.

Open source - The source code of Drupal is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License 2 (GPL). Unlike proprietary blogging or content management systems, Drupal's feature set is fully available to extend or customize as needed.

Personalization - A robust personalization environment is at the core of Drupal. Both the content and the presentation can be individualized based on user-defined preferences.

Role based permission system - Drupal administrators don't have to tediously setup permissions for each user. Instead, they assign permissions to roles and then group like users into a role group.screenshot.

Searching - All content in Drupal is fully indexed and searchable at all times if you take advantage of the built in search module.

MORE INFO: drupal.org/features

So as you can see Drupal is community ready after installation.

INSTALLATION

Installation is very easy:

a. If you have a linux hosting, and you enter to the control panel, see the "Fantastico" icon, and you can install automatically Drupal in seconds.

b. If "Fantastico" dont have the last version, download the last version, setup a MySql database, use FTP to submit the files to the server, go to the browser, and use the assistant to complete the setup.

drupal.org/getting-started/install

RECOMMEMDED MODULES PART 1

Ok, now the fun begin...

Advanced Forum: Advanced Forum is a theme/glue module that enhances Drupal's core forum module. The included styles provide the look typically found in stand alone forum software...
drupal.org/project/advanced_forum

Adding functionality to your forum with contribs:Advanced Forum adds some functionality to the core forum module by itself but, to really emulate stand alone forum software, you need more modules. Many of the modules here are automatically integrated into Advanced Forum...

drupal.org/node/227121

SHOPPING CARTS:

You have 2 options:
Ubercart: www.ubercart.org

* Selling physical goods from various sized product catalogs.
* Selling items in a virtual economy: Drupal.org showcase site, Digital Dollhouse
* Selling file downloads (i.e. music, videos, software).
* Selling event registrations: Drupal.org case study of Just Racing
* Selling site access for members only websites, including automatic renewals and expiration of user access.
* Selling items on multi-domain sites: Drupal.org case study of Row Eleven Wine Co.

I will play with Ubercart first.


E-Commerce: www.drupalecommerce.org
# Shopping cart and product 'look and feel' are themeable
# Create taxes, charges and discounts
# Subscriptions and recurring payments
# Receive donations
# Sell file downloads, shippable items, bundles or even customizable products
# Inventory management
# Payment and shipping plugins: The system can use PayPal, Authorize.net, eWAY, C.O.D. or you can roll your own.
# Invoice generation and email notifications
# Transaction and payment workflows
# Reports and sales summaries
# Customers can review their order history
# Run an auction site

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