Dwees Design

As you know, a colleague and I are working on our new school website. This part of a series of blog posts explaining what we have done.

The very first task we did was to look at the information we were provided on the needs of the school in terms of menu layout and functionality. This was actually fairly easily done since we had spent the previous year working in a committee. From this, we decided on a menu structure and overall plan for our site.

Our idea is to segment the site using Organic Groups, largely because it's easy to create access control (just assign users to the groups they are allowed to view) and easy to maintain relationships between the content of the site and it's location within the site. We are also planning on using the Panels module to provide the display of the group nodes and the front page.

We plan on using the Views module to expose our site information, and using custom content types to make it easier for users to submit information for display within the correct view. We may end up using CCK to add some fields to our nodes, particularly for our Alumni users to submit user profiles and for our school bulletin items.

The site is already starting to come together a bit, which is exciting.

David