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By stephenhendry on
Hey,
I am looking for a CMS/Portal to meet the needs of the new site I need create. I have looked at a few cms's (geeklog, mambo, xaraya) but none have hit the spot.
What I need is something which can handle:
Multiple blogs
Calander of events
Photo album
can read rss feeds and have them in a block
forum would be handy
multiple users hopefully having custom profiles.
I am sure Drupal can do most of this but how easy out the box would it be to do? Sadly I dont have alot of time on this project to have a steap learning curve on using the cms (i.e. typo).
Can I take it that I can make the site layou with tables by using CSS?
Thanks allot for your time
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Out of the box,
Out of the box, nope.
Drupal is pretty much a bare bones install.
You download modues (see the downloads section for the list) to take care of what you want.
I *think* all of what you mention is here.
Drupal's only painful drawback is to get the install going you have to know some techinical stuff.
Iv'e thought of writting a script to take care of all of this, but too often are modules updated.
If each module had a script like install.sh (for *nix) then it would be pie to do this... however, this would be devling into an area that I would think have been discussed many times already.
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Looks back, I sain painful
Looks back, I sain painful as ifit's complex. it's not that difficult compared to other CMS's. In fact, it's probably one of the more simpler (which is why I originally chose it -- sheer laziness / lack of time)
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To meet my needs what ones
To meet my needs what ones would I also need to install. Does anyone have any good links to a similar sort of site. I dont mind learning a CMS and hacking bits up to get them to work but I dont want to find out what i want to do cant be done without me writing my own modules. Sadly I dont have the time to do this at the moment :-(
Try CivicSpace
CivicSpace just released version .8 which is based on Drupal 4.5. The difference is that many of the additional contrib modules are already installed, and there is a configuration wizard to help you with some basic setup at the front end.
Yes, mostly
All you ask for is there, except for the custom profiles. I think someone's been working on that. I feel a big appeal to draw members would be their ability to create custom looks for their own blog pages.
But the blogs, events, photos, rss and forum are all there in Drupal core and the modules on the downloads page.
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hmmm 1. blogs is part of
hmmm
1. blogs is part of core
2. for the Calender, you need the event,module. I use it and it works, various improvements are underway by various poeple.
3. photo album... the image module has a gallery built in. It is not as full featured as one would desire, but a new image module and seperate gallery module are being worked on and the progress looks good.
4. rss, oh yes, it's one of the primary reason's I use Drupal, it will also output rss feeds easily.
5. forums are part of core. Various people complain that they are not phpBB, but they are what you are using to post in and can be themed.
6. multiple users, if by profiles you mean permissions (author, editor, site maintaner) then yes. Custom fields can be added to profiles. Avaters can be enabled if a theme supports them. Otherwise you need to be more clear.
7. Ease depends on your technical level. SOme things were very easy for me, others were not. For instance I had no trouble with setup, figuring out how to organize a CMS was new to me.
8. Depending on the theme you choose, yes you can use css only for your layout.
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I will give Drupal a go. It
I will give Drupal a go. It looks liek there is an active community which makes a big diffrence If I get stuck. Role on the end of the week when I can start development.