You may also want to check out the Drupal Commons distrobution. https://acquia.com/products-services/acquia-commons-social-business-software
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Mahesh saini <maheshsai...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:30 PM, victor katemana <princevick...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> i have just migrated to drupal, in other words i am a drupal newbie. i >> would like to get some tips/knowledge from you to kick on my project. >> i want to develop a community website where people will be posting >> different events, news, discussion forum and many more features using this >> cms. >> how can i easily start about developing such a project using drupal., i >> mean coding standards, how to communicate with drupal inbuilt features, how >> to integrate with different modules., best drupal ide's and so on >> if someone has done such a project can i share some development ideas >> with him please.? >> >> point to note: i have already read alot of drupal books, also watched >> some drupal introduction tutorials. >> >> thanks in advance >> > > Building a community site with drupal is not a big deal. There are existing > module for that. Depend upon the requirement of the community what kind of > feature you want to include on your site. There are events, newsletter > ,poll, forums and advance forums module of druapl. You can use these module > to establish a community website. There is one distro of drupal openatrium > developed for the purpose of community websites. > > -- > (\/)/\ /-/ ES /-/ >