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Caydel
June 17th, 2006, 02:12 PM
Hello..

I am going to be designing a new website.

Here is the situation: my wife's family on the one side is spread very far, with some family members being in British Columbia, some on Ontario, and a few strung in between.

I am looking to build a family website. My idea is that I want to have blogs and a forum. A blog for every family, or for whoever wants one, along with picture gallery capabilities and a forum, preferrably all sharing the same userbase.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated....
Miles Baker
June 18th, 2006, 07:21 PM
Wordpress would work perfect, as for the forum you would need a separate MYSQL database and you could use PHPBB. I recommend WordPress, it's fantastic!
Caydel
June 18th, 2006, 07:52 PM
hmmm... perhaps I can write a module to allow them to share the login information.
Caydel
June 18th, 2006, 08:45 PM
hmmm... I need something that supports multiple blogs... Wordpress doesn't support that without setting upa seperate MySQL db for each one.... If I have 30-40 different blogs, that is a little too much work. Ideally I would like to have asingle admin account controlling all the blogs....
Miles Baker
June 18th, 2006, 08:54 PM
You could try this.... http://www.host-press.com/ Let's you have all the WordPress blogs as subdomains.
junipershade
June 19th, 2006, 08:28 AM
There is also a free multi-user version of wordpress called wordpress MU, (mu.wordpress.org) it´s not final release, but if you´re not doing anything too complicated it with it (i.e. thousands of users), it works ok.

Neil
alien23
February 1st, 2007, 08:49 AM
Hello..

I am going to be designing a new website.

Here is the situation: my wife's family on the one side is spread very far, with some family members being in British Columbia, some on Ontario, and a few strung in between.

I am looking to build a family website. My idea is that I want to have blogs and a forum. A blog for every family, or for whoever wants one, along with picture gallery capabilities and a forum, preferrably all sharing the same userbase.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated....

Yes, you can go on with the project as it looks nice to see your idea and you will need to buy a data base also for this..that's all
mojojuju
February 1st, 2007, 04:07 PM
If you enjoy code, and a steep learning curve doesn't turn you off, dare to try the enterprise strength content management system known as TYPO3 (http://www.typo3.com), the only CMS that God uses.

TYPO3 handles multiple sites and multiple domains natively - no plug in is needed. All domains and sites are administered in one log in area and only one database is needed.

Also available for TYPO3 are forum extensions which allow your cms to run a forum to use the same userbase and database installation as the main CMS.

It's all really kick ass, but it takes quite a bit of work, but it's worth it.

Whatever system you choose, remember to ask your provider to set you up with a wildcarded DNS entry. That way, any subdomain you can dream up will automatically point to your multi-domain capable CMS installation. Then you just need to add the particular domain to the area of the page tree where it is desired.