I posted earlier about creating an online magazine / community. It appears joomla, wordpress, or drupal might be a good option. I'm still not sure which one is best for what I want to do. Essentially I want people to be able to go to the site, join, and upload stories, photos, videos and more. I want whatever they upload to be in certain designated sections of this site - perhaps with a home page that has a feature or two from each other section. Things can vary though. Some might just upload pics, while others might just upload videos. It'd be nice too - if whomever uploads the content has a profile of sorts where folks can see their other posts / content. Anyone have any guidance? Any help would be very appreciated!
You want CMS, which is Joomla or Drupal as Wordpress is a blog. For you, I might recommend Joomla, but Drupal would also work fine. oh and by the way, CMS means more than one person can submit things
> joomla, (Always leaves me thinking I've wasted my time) >>> wordpress (Very easy, lot's of plugins, and good for many types of sites) >>>> or drupal (The BEST, if you take the time and effort to master it) Drupal can be called a CMS, but it is really an excellent PHP framework. I need to learn more about writing code, in order to fully enjoy Drupal.
He wants a group of people to submit, so you can't use wordpress as wordpress is admin only blog. Joomla and Drupal multiple people can submit to. So it depends on whether to go with Joomla, or Drupal.
thanks for the replies and advice. which one is easier to learn? I am computer literate. . . but coding illiterate. . . I know I'll have to learn some things obviously. Bu the more user friendly interface would win me I think. . .
Actually, I see no reason why you can't use Wordpress in this way. Wordpress is not an admin-only blog: you can have other users (and assign different levels of privileges to each user -- see Roles and Capabilities). Someone with PHP experience could create categories in Wordpress to handle video and image style posts (along with posts that include text). You could add a category tag for "featured" posts that appear in a separate design on the home page. Wordpress has lots of magazine themes (some free like Branford, some paid for like Brian Gardner's Revolution themes -- although they're going open source as of next month). There are lots of others too. Wordpress can easily incorporate both static pages and blog-style posts: it is more of a full CMS nowadays than in its early iterations. You might find something like amember, teamed with Wordpress, is a good combination for what you need. Equally, I'm sure you could use Joomla or Drupal, with appropriate template sets/themes, to achieve the same kind of outcome. But I don't know those platforms all that well. A downside to Wordpress sometimes is that the Support Forum is so active, it's hard to get a response quickly (as your post disappears off the recent list in no time). But the support forum and codex are comprehensive. The good thing is that you'll find elance and other other sites (even specific ones like joomlance) that have people willing to help you with low-cost support for all three platforms -- each has a large online community and is under active constant development. Just thought I'd give you more insight from a Wordpress user's perspective!
PS: I just saw the "showcase" at the Revolution theme site -- http://www.revolutiontheme.com/showcase -- some great examples of the ways people are using Wordpress.
But why spend money/time modding Wordpress to make it do something that Drupal does out of the box? It would make more sense, I think, to just learn the basics of Drupal and then create your magazine site using that, because you won't need to be constantly modding and changing as versions change. This is a basic tutorial/site recipe on creating a newspaper with Drupal, with users and roles and all that, you could start with this and move on to add the features you want: http://drupal.org/node/197899 I think you can do the same with Joomla out of the box, I just happen to strongly prefer Drupal
I would recommend you the open source CMS typo3+ yaml (a template engine), package which provides a clean code.
I was a big fan of Joomla but my site recently got hacked and it has me curious about how secure this CMS actually is.
I use joomla 1.5 currently, it is a great improvement over joomla 1.0. I have played with wordpress, I wasn't too impressed. It isn't easy to find joomla templates though, at least good ones. I have never tried drupal, from what I have read its not quite as easy to use, and templates are even more difficult to find on there, as well as addon software is not as plentiful.
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Wordpress certainly has a great user interface and the new Revolution themes can certainly handle what you need. quote The Revolution themes are widget-ready, customizable themes that provide ideal solutions for online magazines, online newspapers, and other websites that wish to use WordPress as a content management system. I got this from revolutiontheme.com/ (no not affiliated) just looks like it might do the trick.
Plugins such as TDO Mini forms are available for wordpress which allows used to submit content without even registering for the site
I want people to have to register to post. It enables me to track everything and to build a database of users/writes/photographers etc.
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