Which Drupal version and modules should I use for humor portal?
Hello
I am planning to create a community humor portal with Drupal. I am not experienced at all with Drupal, but I'm quite experienced in coding with Wordpress and Joomla. I would appreciate if someone could help me out by giving me advice on which version of Drupal and also what modules I should use for my site.
I want to give users the ability to upload and publish their own humor content (images, videos, flash games, jokes), which an admin will approve before publishing. Also members will be able to comment and rate the uploaded media.
I want to create a members' profile area that will show info to other members and allow them to IM a member or email them.
I would like to have a module on the sidebar that would show random avatar of members who are online.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Kind regards
ntg
The first thing that comes
The first thing that comes to mind from what you've described is to create a new content type (using the CCK) for each kind of thing you'd like people to be able to upload. Take a look as well at the image and associated modules (image attach, etc). Embedded Media Field also can help with audio/video/still life media. The Fivestar module allows for user ratings. The Private Message module allows members to send messages to each other. I don't know of an Instant messaging module offhand (but I'm sure there are some). For the random avatar I would probably use the Avatar Selection module to enable enhanced avatar support and then write a custom module to grab the avatar of a logged in member.
Edit: This would best be done under Drupal 5, as not all of these modules are available in release versions for D6 yet.
HTH,
Dave
Thank you so much for your
Thank you so much for your quick reply.
I checked the modules and I realized that only the Embedded Media Field is not compatible with Drupal 6. I'll see if I can work things out without this module and then I will decide if I will use drupal 5 or 6.
Kind regards
ntg