Easy to Use CMS for Kids

After stumbling across this forum post (http://www.webmasterworld.com/content_management/3767598.htm) and finding out that Joomla has a release branch that is catered towards children (http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/jkids/frs). Having a 5 year old of my own, I'd be thrilled to see him working with Drupal, even if it was to upload pictures or write a journal. I was unable to find a group here on D.O. that was similar topic but thought it would be worth mentioning. If we were able to get an installation profile released we may gain some new users. But I think what's more important is we'd be able to take a step back and look at ways to address very basic user interface and usability issues.

There'd be little need to discuss complex programming, powerful modules or edge case scenarios. I think what would be needed for this to work is a limited administration panel (with lots of pictures), a child friendly base theme, couple content types and a very basic WYSIWYG editor.

Here's a few standalone applications that would be good to use as a reference for usability
http://kidrocket.org/
http://www.kidzui.com/

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Making Text-editing easy for Children

Hi,

There's a discussion over in the Drupal in Education user group (http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-education) about Making Text-editing easy for Children (http://groups.drupal.org/node/14190).

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Frank

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Relevant - Case Study

Here's a case study (http://drupal.org/node/339500), but it's more about launching a site and making it kid friendly. Where as I'm interested in putting together a platform which is easy for kids to install and maintain.

It's an excellent write-up about privacy and usability, there's a good amount that can be learned from it.

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Administration Menu

Here's my suggestion as to what items should appear on a Kid Friendly Drupal administration page. Using a graphical layout similar to Control Panel module or Root Candy administration theme (but even more comical)

Content Management
- Content
- Comments

Site Building
- Blocks
- Themes

User Management
- Users

Reports
- Recent log entries
- Top search phrases

Site Configuration
- Error reporting
- File system
- Site information
- Site maintenance

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