What's Best For A Community Type Site?

[questionmark]

Hello

I'm looking to build a community type site for this local area. I'd like to give people the ability to create their own blog, have rss feeds for local news, have a classifieds section, local events, info on local schools/colleges, some games such as sudoku, etc, maybe have a fantasy football league, a section for parents, and other things that seem like a good idea. To create such a site, would it be best to start with a CMS? If so, what would be best suited for this? I've seen Drupal recommended on here a while back but I don't know for what website type. I'm a novice to website creation and script installation. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Samrc]

CMS sounds like a good way to go.

 

I would first take a look at the options offered in cPanel (under FANTASTICO).

You can also "test drive" them and several others without installation at this site:

http://www.opensourcecms.com/

It's a nice way to check out the features and get a feel for them.

[questionmark]

CMS sounds like a good way to go.

 

I would first take a look at the options offered in cPanel (under FANTASTICO).

You can also "test drive" them and several others without installation at this site:

http://www.opensourcecms.com/

It's a nice way to check out the features and get a feel for them.

 

Thanks for responding. I haven't looked on my TCH cpanel in quite a while, but I thought Fantastico wasn't included because of potential problems it causes? Thanks for the link, I'll check it out. If you or anyone has a preferred CMS, I'd appreciate knowig which. I'm not very tech savvy yet, so one that isn't overly complex but that also has advanced features when I'm ready for them.

Thanks

[TCH-Thomas]

Fantastico announcement

[TCH-JimE]

Hello,

 

The best thing is to try them all yourself and once you have found one you like, delete the others. Fantasico is brilliant for this.

 

My favourite CMS is Joomla, and with what your wanting to do, you can add the communitiy builder component to it which seems quite popular these days.

 

With what ever you choose, any problems, just give us a shout

 

JimE

[questionmark]

Hello

Thanks for the responses. I checked out the CMS site. There's a bunch there. Too many really to know where to start. I looked at the Drupal demo. It didn't seem overly complex but that may be ignorance talking. I'll do as suggested and see what I can do with the scripts included in Fantastico. I've read that the scripts are often older versions of ones now available, can scripts normally be updated or would the older version have to be removed to install the newer?

thanks again

[TCH-Bruce]

If you install something through Fantastico it can be updated through Fantastico without having to uninstall first. However, if the update is slow in coming you may want to update manually to keep your site secure.

[stevevan]

The others are correct...fantastico is really helpful on install. Since you said you are relatively new to website creation, I would strongly encourage you to read the documentation on whichever CMS you decide to go with. Having dabbled in drupal, and a few others (and now sticking with Joomla), I will say there is a bit of a learning curve. BUT...there are many helpful family members who will be glad to lend a helping hand PLUS a lot of resources out on the 'net. And once you get it, you'll be surprised how easy things become!

[flashram]

I went through this looking at all of them, and kept comming back to Joomla as well and have it installed. Only thing holding me back further on development of the site is the up and comming change to Joomla and I want to learn just one without haveing to relearn it all again. I can wait. But installing through Fantastico is very easy and is especially easy to uninstall that way as well.

[TCH-JimE]

The up and coming change to Joomla could take months as yet, so I would not hold your breath for a release any time soon. How much will change, to be honest, not that much, but thats just my opinion.

 

JimE