a community site

[jan_hut]

I'm making a site for a living community of about 30 households and would love to get some feedback on what modules to use and how to go about it.

The site needs a public and private area. Preferably a private and a public homepage. Visitors should have 2 options when they arrive at the index page: go to the public area, or login the private part. So index needs to have a form.

Private users need to be able to post messages on a forum as well as be able to adjust their contact details such as email adresses and phone numbers. Also 1 or 2 persons need to be able to manage the calendar. I know I can have people login the admin part and give them permissions for certain things however these features need to be accessed directly from the site rather than the admin backend. I need 3 or 4 timetables for chore rosters for every private user to read but frontend editable by certain users.

All this of course packed in pretty design

Any ideas, hints tips are more than welcome.

[Dee]

To be honest  I'm not sure CMS Made Simple will fit your needs. It has a seperate admin backend and there are no modules I know of that allow frontend editing.

To create a private area you need the FrontEndUsers and CustomContent modules.
Use SelfRegistration if the users must be able to register themselves.

The only FrontEndUsers->forum integration I know of is the phpBBX tag.

Regards,
D

[jan_hut]

Hey Dee,

Thanks for you reply. Their site was originally running joomla which backend is way too complicated for users. I think it won't be a problem to use the admin backend for the person who keeps the calendar up to date. The chores rosters could be maintained by myself since they only need to be updated once a year. I assume the phpBB comes with a user editable profilepage which would be good enough for my purposes. Unless anyone knows a CMS that is as userfriendly and simple as cmsmadesimple I think I'm still gonna go with cmsms