I don't know if this is in the right section or not, but I just wanted to know peoples thoughts. I've spent the good part of 2 weeks now messing around with almost every aspect of Drupal in the vain attempt to acheive the following.
I require a family portal effectively, somewhere where an entire extended family can communicate online by posting little (and maybe large) news articles, organising events and creating/viewing photo albums of all these events, stories and other things that go on in their lives. I wanted a site that looked really good (Drupal does), is easy to use for the end user and does everything I want it too and maybe more that I haven't thought of yet.
When I found Drupal i was overjoyed, it showed so much potential to do what I wanted, I was really excited about it! But now I cannot contain my frustration!
I installed it, got it working and started to look around the settings and functions etc. I wanted to use the organic groups module to be able to create a little mini home page for each family unit within the extended family, and then I wanted it to be possible for an article/album/story/poll to be posted to that group and viewable either just to that group, or to everyone, or to perhaps several groups but not everyone on the site. I also wanted to be able to post it to like a category (which is what the taxonomy module does I think) so that someone could browse the site by category... for example, if someone wanted to see how all their grandchildren are doing in unveristy they could click on a "category" menu item and be presented with a list of categories to choose from, one of which could be "University".
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