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Good evening, all. First post to the Drupal Fora.. if all goes well, it'll not be the last ;-)

I have worked up a set of parameters for a project I am undertaking. There's no particular timeframe on this, but obviously I'd like to get it up and running as expeditiously as possible. I have been reading several posts in this forum that seem to indicate a multi-month learning curve... which is somewhat daunting.

Anyhow... here's what I am thinking of doing:

The requirements:

  • 1... Articles: submitted/published by members previously veted by admin (per user management)
  • 2... Blog: commentable by logged on members, and again can accept submissions as above
  • 3... News: with a 'teaser' front page, archives, and RSS for overall. Possibly an RSS infeed as well, tho probably not controllable enough vis-a-vis content to be tenable. Permalink-enabled as with blog, but no comments.

(Note: 1-3 above to be somewhat WYSIWYG-enabled for input formatting via css-tag referencing. However, this need not be extensive - wiki formatting would suffice)

  • 4... Forum: at least two... general public, though must provide username/email (via double opt-in) to post, and an Insider forum
  • 5... Listserv: hooked to the fora above (can read/write via either) input/output must be Ascii (plain text), rather than RTF/HTML. (Optional.. but it would be nice!)
  • 6... Business Directory (listings viewable by category/location/priority. Statistics required for clickthrough from this area
  • 7... Full avertisement (text/banner) management, again including clickthrough statistics.
  • 8... User management: Member (for blog comments, newsletters, ect), Insider, and administrative. There may be several additional layers within the admin and Insider areas as well. Member to be via double opt-in (webform sign-up and subsequent email response). Insider to be via webform and manual management (later, by ecomm methods). Basically, looking for a robust user management system
  • 9... Form generation / output management
  • 10... Email newsletter subscription services as well as creation / mailout of these newsletters. A very nice option would be to have one of the services to be a daily/weekly 'pseudo-rss" where teasers of all the new articles/blog entries/ news entries for the week are sent to opt-in subscriber/members... this pseudo-rss to be fully automated.

Optional:

  • 11... E-comm as a potential future expansion
  • 12... Multiple polls/surveys with live results displayed or withheld, at admin discretion

Is the above managable via Drupal, and if so, is it realistic to presume that a CMS newb like myself would be able to enable it in a reasonable time-frame? If it isn't reasonable to assume so, are there foks here who might take some filthy lucre off my hands to do it for me?

Thanks for any and all replies!

John

Comments

divrom’s picture

divrom commented

The time-frame will be your biggest issue.

I'm not sure about no.5, but the rest are certainly possible.

dman’s picture

dman commented

I'd think that sorting out any system (or more likely, several different systems) with that many features would be a multi-month learning curve if you were intinding to do any level of customizing or integration between the parts.
The listserve bit will of course have to be a different tool - it's not a website feature at all really, but most of the rest is at least possible. The automatic newsletter as you describe is how it works out-of-the-box already. It was trying to customize it wth unique stuff that I found hard.

.dan.
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piersonr’s picture

piersonr commented

mailhandler and listhandler could be the ticket for the listserv integration