Date: 03/27/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, programming, css, web

Hi everyone, I was wondering what the best way to go to set up a community site. I'm set to inherit a local music-scene related website, or 'portal', that used to have a 'blog' of sorts on the front page with announcements from the administrator(s), a bulletin board for discussion and promotion, and a photo gallery where anyone who wanted could easily upload and display pictures they took at events. The old site was phpNuke powered and got hacked, and the old admin also simply doesn't feel like dealing with the site anymore, so it's currently on hiatus.

I was thinking wordpress perhaps? They have a new bbPress thing (from the makers of wordpress, a bulletin board that's code-light, customizable and skinnable, and standards-compliant) but I don't know what to do about a collaborative photo gallery; I think they used the coppermine in conjunction with the phpNuke before; I would like to have it so they could log in to the site once and use any of the functions.

I'm researching different options, and I'm pretty handy with webmastering, css-based design and some minor php-programming/tweaking, so that's not a problem. I would just like opinions on the best methods or open-source/cheap web-community resources.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1236559.html