On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Daniel Weber <haiku@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > first I should introduce myself, I am Daniel Weber (aka Master199). I took > over the website maintain job from Niels at BeGeistert. If you want to know > something about me, feel free to ask. :) Welcome on-board! Nice to see someone step up so quickly. > > > Back to the topic: > The split up in more than one installation isn't that usefull, because if > you have 5 subdomains and for each an seperated Drupal, you have almost 5 > times the work. You could also use one Drupal installation to manage these > subdomains, but I never had this situation before and I dont know how much > performance get lost thru this. The third way would be to redirect the > subdomains to an existing site/section in one main Installation, but that > would makes no sense to me too. > > For myself I prefer the one "big" site solution with an new concept of > navigation, because if we use subdomains, this is for an first time visitor > just confusing. We should take care that everyone can simply navigate to > every section he wants. I happen to prefer this method too but it's ultimately not my decision. > > > Update to D6: > The current theme (based on the old SpreadFox Theme) isn't usable with > Drupal6 without some modifications. But if I would rework and reimplement > it, I could also write an new one. So I think we should bring up a new theme > and layout with an update to D7, so we can jump over D6 without doing the > same work two times (because from D6 to D7 there are changes in the engine > again). I would like to see us skip over D6 and go straight to 7 once it's been tested and a good amount of modules have been updated to support it. I don't keep an eye on Drupal's activities so I'm not familiar with the D7 timeline but it might be worth the wait (I'm more of a joomla fan boy). > > > Greetings, > Daniel > > You have some big shoes to fill but I'm sure you are up to it. If you need anything you know where to find us :) Cheers! Dennis