Appraising Craft CMS - newbie questions I am looking into the idea of porting my first site into Craft CMS. It is the site of a friend/client who has a railway engineering consultancy, and it's currently running on another CMS (TidyCMS). Before I dive in and look through all your documentation, I would appreciate some help, just so that I don’t run into a design roadblock further down the road.

There are really only two areas where I am concerned about porting to Craft CMS :

Actualités (News) page :
http://www.study-technologies.com/fr/actualites.html
These are news listings on the page (image + date + title/text), which point to individual article pages when clicked. Can this be done in Craft?

Project pages :
http://www.study-technologies.com/fr/projets-ferro.html
These are project galleries which are dynamically populated as individual project pages are created. An image in the project page is chosen to appear in the gallery grid. Can this be done in Craft?

A few other questions :


Can Craft CMS handle bilingual sites?
Is the Craft CMS admin available in French?
Can my client set up different user permission levels?**


I hope you can answer all of these, and if so, I’ll be diving in right away! I have other clients that I’d like to port over, but this client has the most complex design, so I’d like to use it as a test case.

Thanks,
Ric
Craft is the perfect CMS to handle everything you just pointed out.

Can Craft CMS handle bilingual sites? YES.

https://craftcms.com/docs/localization-guide



Is the Craft CMS admin available in French? YES.

https://craftcms.com/support/cp-languages



Can my client set up different user permission levels?** "YES".

Depending on your use case this will be doable. Then its just a matter of "how" your client wants to be able to do this. Craft supports dynamic user permissions creation so whatever your use case is I'm sure Craft will handle it with ease.