Dwees Design

I'm going to be working with a partner to create a Drupal site for my school. We have a full month to work on the main details of the site, and will work on improving it over the course of the whole year.

The idea is that we want to build a site which will serve as a marketing front-end for the school, and as an way to distribute information to parents and students from the school, and allow teachers to collaborate with each other and their students.

I know that Drupal can do the job. I plan on using this blog to document my process.

Today we started by setting up 2 domains for us to use, one as a back-up to the other, and installing a mirrored Drupal installation on both of them. Plan is to start with a huge bundle of modules (most of which will never be enabled) to remind ourselves of all of the features available to us through the active community at Drupal.org. We don't want to build anything from scratch that exists already.

The major difficulty with the site will be in the intended upgrades. We want to eventually have parents able to monitor their child's progress through their account on the website. So we have a lot of sensitive information that we need to protect, which means access control is going to have to be carefully checked.