Re: [Slashcode-general] Discussion Forum

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 --- Joyce Harris <ha...@AM...> wrote: 
> I have installed Slash to use as a discussion forum for professors at UT. What is the best way
> to give each of them their own space(site)?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Joyce

To re-iterate, you haven't really told us what you want so it is very difficult to help you.

If all you want is to offer professors the ability to upload their own websites then
you could ignore slash and provide them with their own bit of disk space eg
"public_html" directories within their home directories. Any good book on apache will
tell you how to configure that (eg Wrox's book on Apache by Pete Wainwright).

If you mean that professors will be posting new articles then just set them 
up as authors. Users can see the articles by a particular author if they like.
This sounds like the best strategy.

You *might* have meant that you wanted each professor to have a particular section
where articles relevant to them could be stored. Or possibly topic instead of section.
To see how this might work you can visit my www.DiverseBooks.com site - just where
you see a book genre think "Professor" and where you see a section think "type of article
about or by that professor".

Of course you might be after a complicated portal site which is beyond slash's current
ability without plugins being written.

Why not throw together a non-dynamic mockup of what you want in html or even photoshop
if you prefer). It will help you discuss and explain what you are thinking of.


Goodluck.

Alex


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