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Hi all,

I need to build a site where users manage the content of their own areas.

I am in the initial stages of building a web site for those aggrieved by the legal system. That requires some unique capabilities that are different from a single person blog.
1. The users would initially apply for an account. It would be granted based on the situation.
2. The registrant would provide the Country, City, State, Court, and Prison Information. This would be indexed so that directories could be generated by country, state, county etc. that would allow drill down to that prison, court system, judge, DA etc. Bread crumb string, etc.
3. The content to be stored will be .pdf files, image files, text, html text, video, sound files, and zipped files.
4. It must be easy enough for someone with basic word processing skills to enter content.
5. Example of content would be user Mary Smith writing about how her husband has been falsely imprisoned and all of the circumstances surrounding the case. She would be able to post pictures, and upload sworn affidavits in PDFs.
6. A contact form so jurists could contact her.
7. If not too much work, I would like it to have a non-public area where the user could have other documents, such as police reports and court transcriptions, that a user could give jurists access to.

My organization is weighing the pros and cons of upgrading our existing Drupal 6 site to D7. Our site has several thousand nodes, as well as a number of feeds and views. Our traffic is almost 100% anonymous, and the vast majority of our content is static, although we update a small percentage of content and add new content on a weekly basis. We have a dozen or so content creators.

We're currently weighing two options:

The first is upgrading our existing site to D7.

This may be the wrong forum but I found it tricky to place this one. I have developed a couple of modules in the past and have been a web developer for years so I have no issues diving into code if necessary, obviously if there is a module for this that would be easier. I am thinking of my own solutions, however I would love to hear some suggestions from the community.

I have a daunting customer support site that is currently a mix of static documents, and web apps for reporting a ticket, etc. I’m trying to determine which CMS will be the “least” headache for me to implement and migrate to. (Those were ironic quotes)

Hi,

I am setting up a site where users will purchase a posting on the front page of my website, scheduled for a day. After their day is over, the next user's content will run.

I am needing functionality so that whatever user submitted info is taken, it can be:
Auto scheduled for the next available day, on a per-day basis
Automatically pulled and posted on the front page.