School Website

Posted by claudio1 on January 16, 2012 at 12:38am

Hi,

I am a Web Design student and am designing a website for a school as for my thesis project ( I haven't started yet). I am very new to Drupal as to webdesign and I wondered if anyone can help me choose the right modules as this is my first time.

So, the website will serve as a tool to rise funding as it is a charity School so it will take Donations
on top of being a standard school website.
The website will have these functionalities:
Donation
Forum
Blog
A portal - (Learning Management System or whatever to Track students, deliver
learning material and perform simple tasks) ... maybe Moodle?
News letter
Online Application Form.
Also I will take care of the look and feel of the site so I wanted to
use my own design. Can I still do this customising themes?

Also on top of the Card Transactions for Donations, people will have to be able to apply to courses and pay enrollment fees online. Is there a module that would suit me for both purposes? I have seen that most of them use Paypal for donating is there an alternative? I wanted people to stay on my site rather than being directed to the gateaways' sites for making the payment is this possible using the modules? Would I need a Internet Merchant Account and a Payment Service Provider if I use the pre-built modules?

Thanks

Hope to hear from you soon

Claudio

Comments

Claudio

Posted by claudio1 on January 16, 2012 at 12:41am

Hey someone has already replied to this on other groups and I am very grateful for this though the more info you could give me the better. x

Hope to here from you soon!

Claudio

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Posted by claudio1 on January 16, 2012 at 12:43am

Übercart

Posted by robby.griffin on January 16, 2012 at 12:52am

You should be able to accomplish a lot of that with ubercart, which is a fantastic module that a lot of people use with Drupal (meaning you'll find good support here). You might also look into using CiviCRM with all the fundraising and whatnot that your school will require.

Personally, I think Moodle seems a little too complicated to end users and yet also lacks customized functionality, but you're talking about a very complicated site as it is, so using a product like Moodle out of the box might be a major time saver.