By csoak on

Greetings,

I want to set up a website for photography buffs, amature/professional that is somewhat like a myspace account. I'm not sure which modules will be needed to do what I want and I seek the advice of those in the know. I want to make the following available.

Individual personal webpage, ability to have a personal photo gallery, personal blog, ability to make the blog rss, upload and photo management, the ability for each member to have a way to sell their photo prints individually, and a personal email list. On the overall site, I want members to be able to have a forum, personal messege capability, ability to purchase advertising space, digital photo web school online, an events calendar and upcoming events, a newsletter, mailing list. I would also like to have separate interest groups set up for specific types of photography.

I would greatly appreciate your thoughts about which modules to incorporate and any additional ideas of modules that may be useful to members as well.

I am very new at this and not a computer programmer or tech, just an average person trying to create a useful hobby site.

Also, if there is a "driver's manual" so to speak on how to set up and lay out drupal along with different module instructions and uses, I would love to be referred to such a handbook.

Thanks.

CS

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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mdlueck’s picture

mdlueck commented

Well, I do not know why my posting got lost... here goes again.

I suggest checking out the Gallery project. It works well with Drupal. The Gallery project's web site is even run on Drupal! There is a module to integrate Gallery into Drupal which works very well.

The Gallery project site:
http://gallery.menalto.com/

The Drupal Gallery integration module:
http://drupal.org/project/gallery

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Being relatively new to Drupal, "Jump in, expect some issues, anticipate outstanding results."

Michael

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csoak commented

thanks to all for your suggestions on gallerys. Any ideas about the other areas?

Thanks again.

vm’s picture

vm commented

The handbooks are here : http://drupal.org/handbooks
The Drupal cookbook written for the newcomer to Drupal here : http://drupal.org/node/120612

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PRFB commented

An alternative to Gallery is Acidfree. (www.drupal.org/projects/acidfree) The big advantage of Acidfree is that it's deeply integrated with Drupal, so you can use Taxonomy terms to categorize and find content.

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mdlueck commented

The OP's URL was not working, this one just was working so...

http://drupal.org/project/acidfree