[support] How to provide users with personal homepages?

[Bill Fitzgerald]

Hello,

It's possible that the work on profiles as nodes, when combined with 
cck, will get you some/all of the way there.

At the risk of sounding heretical :) you could also check out elgg -- 
their short term roadmap includes customizable profile pages and a 
dashboard widget that allows users to import content from a wide variety 
of sources.

Cheers,

Bill

Leo Burd wrote:

> Hi Ben, thanks for your message!
>  
> Unfortunately, no one else has replied to my question about personal 
> homepages in Drupal. That's quite intriguing, isn't it? :(
>  
> Anyway, I'm kind of curious about your block-page idea, but I'm not 
> sure I could visualize it. Would it be possible for your page to be 
> the displayed whenever one goes to a user account (and leave the 
> existing profile as a link on the side)? For me, a page with a large 
> text area that accepted html links and allowed users to include images 
> would be more than good! If that page could be edited using tinymce or 
> similar would be even better! What do you think?
>  
> Best,
>  
> .L.
>  
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Benjamin Melançon <mailto:pwgdarchive at gmail.com>
>     *To:* support at drupal.org <mailto:support at drupal.org>
>     *Cc:* Dan Hakimzadeh <mailto:dan at agaricdesign.com>
>     *Sent:* Monday, September 18, 2006 10:53 AM
>     *Subject:* Re: [support] How to provide users with personal homepages?
>
>     Hi Leo,
>
>     That's a good question.  I wish I had a better answer; maybe
>     someone else will.
>
>     Enable avatars, of course, for a start.
>
>     It would also be pretty easy to make a custom block that shows a
>     random picture or pictures from a user's photo gallery and only
>     displays on their user/## page, another block that does the same
>     with their most recent blog entry, etc.
>
>     I don't know of any module for user pages that users customize
>     themselves, though.  I might eventually find the time to put the
>     above blocks into a simple module (if your project has a budget,
>     someone else at Agaric will probably be able to make time!).  It
>     would still require customizing the theme to make the place for
>     the blocks.  I'd be interested in a report back on what you've
>     found out there, or what you think of throwing blocks onto the
>     user page.
>
>     - ben
>
>     http://AgaricDesign.com/
>
>     On 9/13/06, *Leo Burd* <leob at media.mit.edu
>     <mailto:leob at media.mit.edu>> wrote:
>
>         Hello there,
>
>         I am creating a website for youth and my users would really
>         like to be able
>         to configure personal webpages with images, links, text,
>         etc.  So far, they
>         only have their personal profile page and that's not
>         attractive at all. What
>         modules do people usually recommend for that? Suggestions are
>         very welcome!
>
>         Thanks in advance,
>
>         Leo
>
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