Website Help

[slycat]

I've decided that Fursuit.co.uk is rather outdated and needs an update. Basically what I want it to be able to do is to allow people to register and log in to the site and add links and rate or comment on existing links. The links themselves will remain in the existing categories of fursuit makers, construction resources and personal sites (or member profiles as personal sites are more a thing of the 90's now). For those who aren't logged in, people can just view the links and the functionality of the existing site will effectively remain the same as it is at the moment.

I've played around with the idea of existing content management systems such as Drupal, Mambo and Joomla as they're easily installed onto my site, however they all seem far too complex and broad for what I'm looking to achieve. I would develop it myself but to be honest, creating a system where people can register and log in, manage their profile, submit links and comment or rate those links is beyond me. I wouldn't know where to start with the user logins or how to do the rating system bits specifically.

Surely there's an existing PHP system I can install for the simple usage I'm looking for?

Comments

[poisontei.livejournal.com]

Please bear in mind that I've tried neither of these myself - I've had them recommended only recently, and not had much of a chance to install/test them - but you seem to be more than handy enough to be able to work with them.

Firstly there's Textpattern - http://textpattern.com/ - everything you should need is on the front page, and you can also utilise plugins if need be.

Then there's OneFileCMS - http://onefilecms.com/ - though as it's just the one file, maybe it's too simple for what you want... there's no database or anything.

Hope one of these links is of some help! :)

-Eeve3

[baloki.livejournal.com]

I personally use: http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/ as my CMS however tbh it sounds like your looking for a social network instead of a CMS so you might be better looking for off-the-shelf (so to speak) Social Network solutions instead, I can't remember any off the top of my head atm tbh though :/

[agrajag-fur.livejournal.com]

I have reservations about Drupal. It's been a pig for me (well, the developers in my team) in the past.