Hello. I am new to Drupal. I have gone through the O'Reilly Using Drupal book and worked all the examples so I am a little familiar with what Drupal can do. I am designing a website from scratch that needs to have 3 or 4 pages for the public and then a log-in to a member area. The member area will have its own "home page" with links to groups pages. There will be 6 or 7 groups that will be using their site to maintain content that will be made visible to the public (i.e., show as a summary on the public pages) as well as maintain documents that only members of the group can collaborate on, see or edit. I'd also like to be able to maintain a member directory.
A few questions about design before I get started:
How do I make the public web pages different from the member pages?
Should I use Organic Groups to facilitate the group collaboration and editing?
Should I make use of Wiki-like pages instead?
Thank you for your help.
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Lullabot discussed during the
Lullabot discussed during the do it with drupal event creating something similar to what you are referring,
they have couple of free videos from the convention you can check it out
lots of interesting materials
http://www.doitwithdrupal.com/free-videos
they used organic groups in their sample.
i hope it will be helpful for you.
Motti
Motti Horesh
Horesh Studios
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