I am looking for a website developer who can create a family website for me. It doesn't need to be fancy but it does need to be user-friendly. I already own the domain name. I like the layout of drupal and thought that it would work well. Here are my thoughts for the website:
Main Page: This would be a relatively static page containing major news (reunions, for example) that would be updatable by me and have links to the various other pages.
Blog: This would be an ever-updating news page where everyone could post news from their families, etc. I would also like the blog to have the ability to be updated via email (I understand that drupal can do this) with the person’s name who sent it. People will not need to know how to navigate the website to post (unless they want to); they will just need to know how to send email.
Forums: This section would have the ability to handle multiple topics that people may want to talk about (such as reunions, family history, illnesses, etc.), organized by topic.
Family Pages / Gallery: Every family would be given a page where they could post pictures of their family. All picture uploading would be handled via their web browser. (I don't know if drupal itself can do this, but I've heard that Gallery can be integrated with drupal.) There are 10 families.
Also, along the left or right side there should be a sidebar, which would contain the following (which I understand drupal can do):