By Justinhemp on

420people.com is intended to be a community forum.

Needing the following capabilities: SEO OPTIMIZED, Community (allowing picture posting from members, rating system on the pictures, Fourm board, chatting), E-commerce (with order history, account and invoice creation, shipping trackability, digital content w/ time expiration, coupons, currency converter, payal) affiliate tracking, Search engine capabilities (with the OPTION to give higher positioning to reciprocal links, and with option to search products), Banner Exchange, Sitemap, Site Statistics, SEO Language translation, and Adsence.

Options wanted..
The ability to give users thier own site..kinda like MySpace, Access Data Base Reader or Converter, Java Data Base Connection to sell other companies products, Text Advertising (like Adsence except that it replaces words throughout the site with text links desired by advertisers), Members Email services for members (possibly through Cpanel)

If not.... do you have any suggestions on what open source, or software I should use as the foundation of the site that will allow me the most options for these types of addons..(nothing with liscence renewals).

Congratulations to Drupal Community on this Open Source Software, If I could make one suggestion it would be to allow users to rank and comment on the modules.

Kind Regards,
Jeff Johnson

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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Justinhemp commented

Re: Previous Post: The options WANTED are not neccessary.

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WhatTheFawk commented

You're asking for a lot there, I'll just say right off the bat Drupal is not something you just turn on and it works it's magic, at least not entirely, you'd have to do a bit, maybe even a lot customizing to get everything you're asking for. Your site now would look a lot better on Drupal with a green theme ;) and would be much easier to navigate and read, plus it would be easy for you to update and organize content. As for the features, read on...

Drupal is well optimized for SEO especially if you use Clean URL's, even if you don't, its fine. Users can post images, but you'd have to install a rating module to allow people to rate nodes (the images), and thats only if images are stored as nodes. Of course you could use Gallery2 which is a much better gallery and integrate it with Drupal using the gallery.module. Using Gallery2 images aren't stored in Drupal as nodes, but it allows its own rating/commenting and a whole slew of features, Gallery2 is a full featured gallery.

Also AcidFree is being developed, a gallery FOR Drupal , it has an unknown release date though. As for E-Commerce like i said before Drupal isn't a full site package like that, it's more like a basic well structured CMS for building off of. I'm not sure if there's a e-commerce module here, but your CPanel might have shopping carts that you can install if it has Fantastico, then you could integrate those with Drupal, but Drupal doesn't have an out of the box shopping cart. It especially doesn't have one with all the features you'd like (order history, account and invoice creation, shipping trackability, digital content w/ time expiration, coupons, currency converter, payal)

Same goes for all the search engine stuff and Banner Exchange, Sitemap, Site Statistics, SEO Language translation, and Adsense. If you look through the modules you'll see there are SiteMap, Banner, and AdSense modules, and in Drupal Core there is a statistics.module. So some of what you need is here but if you're not familiar with at least some coding this may not be the best choice for you.

I won't even get into the "Options Wanted", you could use panels.module with a lot of customization, or there is a group working on creating a myspace type site with Drupal (will add link later) but who knows when it will be reliable or even done for use in Drupal 5. What Drupal is VERY good at is organizing and categorizing content, if you have a lot of info or even a little in some cases, I believe it would be best on Drupal and you could add on all the other things later like Gallery2, Shopping Cart, etc.

Of course don't take my word for it, just install Drupal and give it a test run, create a few categories, its easy to set up if you have FTP access. Hope this helps a bit, I'm at work now, but when I get home or tomorrow morning I'll post some links to some software that might be a better for you and get you up and running faster. P.S. You might be interested in this site I designed, http://www.whatthefawk.com/wh/ what a small/happy world. :D My e-mail's WhatTheFawk [at] gmail [dot] com if you have any other questions.

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