[support] How to provide users with personal homepages?

[Johan Forngren]

I know there's a module that let's you restrict the number of nodes an user
can create of a certain content type, but I can't recall it's name.

2006/9/18, Metzler, David <metzlerd at evergreen.edu>:
>
>  The bio module is the closest thing that I'm aware of to a personal home
> page, but you should also of course, look at blogs. Use bio with the views
> module to provide an index of users with the personal home page.
>
> I've also developed a little module based off of blog_theme (I haven't
> decided if is worthy of project publishing) that lets you, for specific
> content type's, force the use of the author's selected theme, do give
> additional flexibility.  If there's interest, I'll publish this as well.
>
> Dave
>
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> *From:* support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Leo Burd
> *Sent:* Monday, September 18, 2006 8:31 AM
> *To:* support at drupal.org
>
> *Subject:* Re: [support] How to provide users with personal homepages?
>
>  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 <pwgdarchive at gmail.com>
> *To:* support at drupal.org
> *Cc:* Dan Hakimzadeh <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> 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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