Hi all,

I'm looking for some help in designing a website. My client likes an existing site and would like to use the same layout. I can't figure out if it is a custom setup or a CMS/Blog engine behind it. The site they want to look like is at www.mikmaqrights.com.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what to use to make a site like this with the following things being supported:
1. Login for more info
2. Self-register but have to be approved by an admin before registration is complete (email notice to the admin would be best)
3. Have some sort of survey facility that is only available to logged in users and each user can answer only once.

Thanks for any assistance!

Rene

Looks custom to me.

Personally, I recommend drupal. It meets your requirements (it has account control with admin approval for registration, and it does basic user-defined polls), and the developer community's quite strong.

It's got at least one contributed module that does more complicated survey-type stuff.

I can usually figure this stuff out without much of an issue. How does Drupal lend itself to learning from scratch? I've got experience installing and setting up Worpress, Movabletype, Gallery1 and 2, and PHPWebsite. Do you think Drupal is comparable to these programs in terms of configuration and use?

I also noticed they are in the midst of doing a version upgrade but only have the betas available yet. How are the upgrades usually handled. Simple file replacements?

Thanks!

If you've got experience setting up those other programs, then I don't think drupal will pose you any problem.



Not sure. I've only used Gallery2. Gallery2 was a bit more complicated.



I've not tried the latest version, but upgrades are usually simple file replacements, even across major releases. They're getting easier with each version. You normally have to run a DB upgrade script (via a PHP page, so it's not that hard) after replacing the files.

We've got a site started at http://www.mfnselfgovernment.com/drupal . It's in the testing stages and is using an older version (5.1) that was included in my Fantastico installer with my webhost so it was a quick and easy way to see how it works.

One issue I can't seem to find a solution to is haveing members only content. It seems to be all or nothing. Right now "Authenticated Users" is set to view content and so are "Anonymous Users". If I turn off the view content setting for Anonymous users then they don't get to see anything... we want anonymous users to be able to view some content but not everything.

Thanks so far!

Rene

There's a contributed module for this; I've not tried it on my site, so YMMV.

http://drupal.org/project/content_access

Perfect.

Now if only I could figure out how to center the title of the page.

I played with the css for a couple hours today but I had no luck. Any suggestions? I'm using the Garland/Minnelli theme.

I won't be spending anymore time trying to learn how the css is working until they confirm if this is the direction they want to go. I have very little experience with working with the actual css... up until today.

Thanks for the help so far!

I think you want to put "margin-left:10%" and "margin-right:10%" inside "#logo-floater" in centertitle.css.

Almost... It moved it a bit to the right, but not centered.

I think there's is something hiding that I'm not seeing... like the slogan maybe...???

Thanks!
Rene

Hm. Maybe set both to 50% and then add "white-space:nowrap" to the SPAN surrounding the title?

No go. I'm trying everything but hitting a brick wall everytime.

I'm gonna wait it out now unless someone wants access to the code to help me look and solve the problem.

I will be upgrading to 5.5 before anything goes live so I don't want to spend too much time on this small item.

Thanks for the help so far!
Rene

For some reason, I can't get the page to render properly when I download all the files, so I can't edit it to test.

We spent many hours at Drupal and have decided that we don't have the time right now to learn. Anyone know of any online training or anything that might be good for a beginner Drupal designer? My fiancee is quite interested, but would like some help.