Let me know if you have any insight or suggestions for a general Dupral installation. Today, I signed up with Hostgator hosting. Their control panel has fantastico scripts, so Dupral installation should be straight forward. Let me know if I should make any additional considerations; or manually install it. In addition, I am looking for suggestions on Dupral tutorial, modules, and other key practices.
I would like the follow features for my site.
Photogallery
It should have multiple galleries accessible through a public and private area; family, friends, and business colleagues.
Wiki
The site will have a tutorial area for updating howto content. A wiki module may serve this purpose if I could have a HTML and “wiki word” version. In other words, I want an offline version of all wiki document in a universal format like HTML or Word document. I will constantly be removing and replacing content and need an offline storage format. A script that converts it from wiki format to HTML would help.
Web chat
It should have a who’s online feature with a basic chat function, which you could turn on or off.
Resume/CV
My site needs a file download area, which is public and private. I don’t want everybody downloading personal info.
Web Development
I need advice on a web development platform for testing new modules and updating themes offline. Currently, Windows XP remains my main working environment, yet I do use Linux. In the past, I have used Foxserv for installing Apache and basic server environment, but it was cumbersome and complicated.