Would Drupal fit these requirements? Any other CMS?

By desi6ner on 22 May 2006 at 13:55 UTC

I am going to drupalize/joomalize/mambolize or whatever this site: http://www.aksjeskolen.no (this is the unfinished website, and it is exactly how I want the design to appear).

This is all I need from the CMS

Publishers need functionality to
1. log in
2. view and edit articles
3. post new articles

(articles will be displayes both on the front page, with an thumbnail, title and a short description)

4. select any image from their computer for the thumbnail preview
(scaling to fit thumbnail size of images needs to be done on the server side)
5. select and place in the article (body) text one or more images accompanied by a short image text
(also server side scaling to fit standard width 250px..)

Can anyone help me out here? It seems like such a simple task, but I've found no CMS that can do this without a lot of hacking..

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated :)

[Heine - fixed title, location]

Comments

Yes, I did something similar

kuahyeow commented 22 May 2006 at 14:07

For requirements 1 to 3, almost any CMS worth its salt can do it, including drupal

For 4, image.module (a very common "add-on" for drupal) can do that. Just upload and the server resizes to your pre-set size. You can then add captions, descriptions, etc...

For 5, img_assist will help you insert several images into your post/article.

www.wen.co.nz was what I was doing.

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But is it simple? Do I need to hack drupal to do it?

desi6ner commented 22 May 2006 at 14:42

Can I really use drupal to publish a site like http://www.aksjeskolen.no without any hacking?

Who much time do I need on such a project. Consider that I have never had any drupal experience, however I do know css very well, I'm comfortable with php too.

CSS and PHP

cmsproducer commented 22 May 2006 at 16:21

If you know CSS and PHP, then you may be better than most of us once you understand how Drupal works. It should be very easy for you to get up and running. Installation is straignt forward if you understand how to create a database and run a php file... and then the theming is all CSS with php code snippets from time to time for dynamic content

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