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Hello everyone!

I'm Craig, and i am a complete Newbie to Drupal (well, i have been reading the docs for a good few days now), and i was wandering whether anyone would be able to give me some help or advice on the task that i have, and hopefully give me some answers to the questions i have whizzing around in my head right now.

The task:
In a nutshell, i want to provide a CMS that can control the content of a multi-lingual and multi-region website. Here is more of a breakdown of the some of the things i need to do or provide: