Moderator section

I am making a site that I want to have created the site configuration, content and theme. I know especially with my knowledge that this will take a while, because I keep moving back and forth between content, site configuration and theme creation. I found a code snippet somewhere (think it was a sample chapter for a book) that creates a module that is displayed during user registration (acceptable use policy) that if the check box is not checked fails the account creation until it is checked. I created a mod role and assigned the guest account the mod role and set the permissions for the mod role for that module. The guest account can go to http://devsite.dev/admin/settings/aup-customization and edit the acceptable use policy. What I want to do is have a mod area like the admin area where all mod management stuff can go and they can't see or access the admin section. In this area I would have stuff like the acceptable use policy, policy for posting pictures, videos and what not. I have tried to edit the module so I can move it out of Site Configuration and into it's own but so far it is not working (but that is the admin section anyway, well it can go here if I could get it not to show the other items). This is more like a project so I can learn drupal and how to do things with it.