I am wanting to build a local community site for the town that I live in. I would like for it to have some of these features and would like to know if Drupal would be my answer. I have looked at PostNuke and WordPress but just have not liked the over system in PostNuke and WordPress seems a little basic. Thanks for your time.
Site dream features:
Main Page
Classified Ads
Personals
Fourm
review/rating module to review/rate local business
be able to offer ads
each user can have a profile / blog
a links section
a gallery section
a local map (maybe a way to import a custom google map?)
possible a chat room
a community calendar that people could submit events
Big site dream is a Google Apps plugin.
I know I will not be able to build the "perfect" site nor am i looking for someone to give me links to all the features I am looking for. Just want to know if Drupal would be able to handle this, Any pointers would be good and/or if you have a site like this i wold love to take a look.
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Drupal will work for what you want to do , however not out of the box.
you will need:
core drupal: first and foremost
drupal core will include a forum, profiles and blogs
The rest of the features you seek, will be modules found in the downloads area.
ec_classifieds
personals, can be handled using CCK.module, its addons, and the views.module to create lists.
user ratings, take your pick, there are many in the downloads -> evaluation category
gallery, again take your pic of the modules in the media category
calendar = event calendar or, since you may already be using CCK and views, create your own event content type.
a links section, investigate the links.module or one of the others like linksdb.module or create one using the CCK.module & views.module
chat room, there are a few chat modules in the downloads area too.
maps, see the gmap.module
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