Simple admin section for content editor

I'm creating a website that's going to be, eventually, run by your average computer user.

The trouble I'm having is that the Drupal admin section is too complex for him to use without a ton of training. I know I can creating a new user and disable all the more complicated unnecessary stuff but that's probably still not going to cut it.

What I'm looking to do is basically create a custom administration page for the user with graphical icons and stuff. For example, if the user clicks on the Add Article icon I want to take the user to the Story creation page. If the user wants to upload a monthly online magazine he can click on the Add Magazine icon which will again open up a Story item with the correct taxonomy term selected (e.g. magazine) and some other fields automatically filled.

Now, if the user wants to delete or edit some data, the types of which will be ordered by taxonomy terms, he can click on the Edit Magazines icons for example, which will go to the standard content editing page but will have dynamically selected the tag so that only the sought after items are displayed.

Any ideas as to how I can achieve this?