message board + newsletter ideas needed

By joecanti on 9 Sep 2009 at 10:49 UTC

Hi all,

I'm doing a website for my cousin who is cycling from the uk to south africa in aid of a charity called recycle...
I have a couple of issues i could do with some help on - thanks in advanced:

1. I am after a simple message system so people can send him good luck messages. It would have simply 1. a page containing all the messages and an input form and 2. a block containing the most recent messages and link to the page mentioned before .I have tried various modules including user wall/guestbook/comment but cant get the usability/simplicity yet...Any thoughts?

2. I am after a way to get a newsletter going - again very simple....I am after the following: 1. a block with an 'enter you email' field and submit...and 2. a newsletter system to write plain text emails to those on the list and 3. a way to review the list of emails...

I have simplenews installed and think it may be the way to go, but i need to find out if its possible to add the block functionality as mentioned above and a way to review the email addresses people have submitted.

The site is a one user site running on Drupal 6. i would like to avoid people having to register with accounts.

Thanks for any help and have a nice day,

Joe

EDIT: item now closed - for all newsletter needs simple news is the one

Edited by WorldFallz - reverted original content, added comment.

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WorldFallz commented 9 September 2009 at 15:12

for #1: one option would be to go with something like the http://drupal.org/project/tribune or http://drupal.org/project/shoutbox modules. Another way to approach it is to make a content type for "messages", use views to display the messages, and formblock to add the form to the same page.

for #2: yep, simplenews.