By Stephen Winters on

I Really Like Drupal

I really like the way Drupal all works together, kind of like one big message board with places for articles, etc. For my purposes, it is much better than a plain webboard. I like the way that the "Recent Posts" shows everything going on from all over the website. This is great for my Upholstery Information Website, which is still in development. However .....

Church Website Has Specific Needs

Can someone tell me, and give me live examples, of any Community Interactive features Drupal has, or that can be put together. For my church website, besides experimenting with Drupal, I've been looking atJoomla!, mainly because it has some Community Interactive components seem to be missing from Drupal, specifically, User Home Pages, Community Builder, Sections, and a few others that I can't think of right now. I'd like to have the church website be a good community style website, with a section similar to MySpace and Elgg, where members have have personal spaces, home pages, pictures, blogs, friends, etc. I realize that Drupal is capable of some of those things, but not as easily (for the users) as MySpace and Elgg. On that side, I have hears something about Drupal and Elgg being somehow integrated. Elgg, Drupal, and Moodle -- the components of an online learning environment That would be a real big draw for me. However, who knows when or if that will actually happen.

Wish I Could Use Drupal For Everything

Realistically, I really like many things about Drupal. I wish that I could Drupal for all my needs, such as for both the church website and my business website. However, besides the above mentioned Community Features, one of the other reasons reasons I'm considering doing the church website on Joomla! is because it seems to me that it's much easier to install and add components (modules), etc. (I'm thinking about if someday I leave the church, I want them to have a website that is easily maintained by the new people.)

Best Wishes,
Stephen
Winters Sewing: Upholstery Information Website

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⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.6.x, Drupal 4.7.x

Comments

Z2222’s picture

Z2222 commented

I'm looking for something similar. Also check out Civicspace, which is Drupal with some community-type modules already integrated in it.

Elgg looks interesting.

yelvington’s picture

yelvington commented

Profile pages are your starting point. Dig into the documentation for theming profiles, and take a look at contributed modules for guestbooks that can be appended directly to the profile pages. You can get pretty close to Myspace's functionality without heavy code development.

There also is a mypage.module floating around somewhere, but it is incomplete and was never properly licensed, so you won't find it on drupal.org.

jasonwhat’s picture

jasonwhat commented

Was built primarily for this purpose. You can also do a lot with the views module to give users their own pages.

Ignas’s picture

Ignas commented

Drupal have OG module http://drupal.org/project/og for advanced community sites.

lambert-1’s picture

lambert-1 commented

Just asking... After what I keep reading in the papers about datamining, I'm a little reluctant to simply entrust my data to a big corporation...