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Thanks Simon. Thanks Ben. At this initial stage your information is very valuable to me. I need to know what i can and cannot do before i make any promises. As you say Simon if i want detailed control i can consider linking to 'moodle' and if i want to allow different groups admin certain section i can consider noixACL. The school would like the site to be 'interactive' so besides the standard static info such as school welcome, history , academic subjects etc. I am trying to come up with ideas which will get the student and teachers involved and keep fresh content on the main page - such as 'polls' newsitems, recent fotos and videos. Any ideas would be more than welcome. I have spent alot of time looking on the web but haven't been very inspired by most of the sites i've seen

Hi I am a part time web designer and have been asked to develop a seconday school website here in Ireland. I have decided to use Joomla for this project and this should be fine to develop and design the site and allow maybe 2 or 3 trusted administrators update and edit the content. I have already played around with developing my own template and its all working fine and validating xhtml and css. Aside from allowing main administrators log on and do their thing i am looking for ideas on how to get students to log on - say for example to blog or to have a forum to buy and sell books. I have looked at forum extensions and they seem ok to implement but what i am unsure of is how to allow students to log on and restrict topics in say a forum. Do i have to create profiles for each student or do i allow them to register themselves? Basically for my example of selling books or restricting topics on a forum what would be the most straight forward way of implementing these? Any ideas? Also regarding school email with new domain name - do i have to create an account for each student or allow them to create their own? Can they log into their email account in Joomla or as a link to the hosting provider or through outlook? Sorry about all the questions at once - am just trying to get a clear picture of what i can and can't do!