tac_lite

I've been given the task of re-doing a state school board association website entirely. Right now it's on Typo3, which has proven too difficult of a learning curve for those involved, and it's too difficult to make it "pretty." For a slew of other reasons, I'm trying to sell the switch to Drupal.

I'm 90% sure I want Drupal. Especially over Joomla because of SEO and the ability to control what different viewers can access.

I have different types of viewers:
*The average School Board Member
*Members who have paid to have access to Policy information

Some of the discussions from before about which access method to use led me to doing some research into this question. Here are my findings:

http://www.lullabot.com/articles/private_forums_in_drupal_forum_access_v...

Based on that, I think Forum Access is the way to go, since it is specifically tailored to our task. People with more advanced needs can drop in another solution.

I just posted a videocast installing and configuring Taxonomy Access Control Lite.

I haven't got this screen capture thing quite down yet, but this one is good enough to share. Here's the link:

Videocast of tac_lite and devel_node_access