New to the board, and the CMS system. I have been using Pixelpost for my photoblog, but I am about to expand my website (
http://www.repost.no) and I need something more customizable, hence the reason I am considering Coppermine. Could someone tell me if Coppermine could fill these criteria (with tweaking on my end as well as possible plugins):
Description of the site I want to build: A local photography website for young photographers that want to showcase their work. It will b
e creative commons licensed. The users surfing the site will be able to sort photos by categories, but also by the specific photographer.
1: The site will feature several photographers: Possibility to choose a specific photographer from the frontpage, as a category. When choosing the photographer, this will show a category view of the photos taken by that specific photographer. When choosing the sub-category then (ie. "landscape") it should show that photographers thumbnails as well as the other photographers landscape images, however maybe smaller or on the side, differentiating them from the chosen photographer, but still available to the user.
2: A hierarchy-type logon with some users having different logon credentials (some users not being able to delete content etc.).
3: Include the original PSD/NEF/CR2 file if necessary as a downloadable file.
4: Based on some sort of category listing, include a small picture of the photographer and info next to the image he/she has taken when choosing a picture taken by that specific photographer.
I have tried searching for topics but I haven't really found anything matching all these criteria. I am assuming all this is possible, and if it is, does it require a lot of scripting to get this to work ?
Will Coppermine be able to do what I want it to do, or should I look at Joomla or other CMS systems for what I need ?