Alumni Website

hey guys, belated greetings.

I am also new to drupal and I am testing the waters with Civicrm. i have a challenge and hoping to score some guidance. I am building a community site that want users to do the following on signup

I am a [student] [past student] [volunteer]

if [student or past student]

Join group [list of schools]

if [volunteer]

join group

and then this will update the relevant civicrm fields.

Hoping I didnt ask to much at once.

We are working on an alumni site and we would like to extend the drupal profile to our specs. We want to populate the profile with very basic information; name, and email address, and then notify the alum of their account being created. We then want them to be able to log in and add information at their discretion, and ideally also expose it to certain user roles at their discretion.

I've been recently hired by a Public High School in downtown Boston and after displaying some level of technical proficiency, the school has decided to make me their official Drupal person with the first project being to overhaul the existing Alumni Website. I have never worked with a CMS and have made it clear to them that this is something I will have to learn...

The past few months I set out to build my first major Drupal project, and this is the result. It's a site that will be used for alumni and current students of Simon Kenton High School in Independence, Kentucky. We expect possibly over 3000 users as last forum site used had about 2500.

The one thing that really makes me happy is how much the users appreciate what has been done. I'm still working to improve some parts of it, as I my skills have improved since I started the site (over 4 months ago) and there are some parts I did back then.

Site can be seen here: http://www.simonkenton.org