Hey Drupal community,
I have embarked on a bit of a scary journey in the past couple of weeks. I'm in the process of starting my first business, and I decided that eCommerce fit what I had planned. My main purpose for this post is to try to understand what sort of work I am really in for. Could someone please offer their suggestion for a list of applicable modules, and a brief explanation of the things I'll have to learn to complete my sites. For the moment I'll start by explaining the 1st site, because I haven't really done anything for the other 2 yet.
First up: World Art Box
A site that has art contributors from around the world. The artists (of which I have none at the moment), will use the site to upload their art work for their own promotion, while also producing "The World Art Box". This is a box of different art media, produced for a small amount of money and sold through the website. The artists will need some sort of homepage where they can contribute art work, I'm thinking I might set up blogs for the contributing artists. And they will submit images of their World Art Box Series as a Product to sell through UberCart. I have already installed uberDrupal install profile, everything is up to date, and I have been busy installing all sorts of modules. At the moment I am having trouble figuring out how to make personal pages for the artists. I have made an "art" content type, and started playing with views.
And, just briefly, the second site is a free music download site, where certain users are contributors (recognised artists). The artists can upload as much music as they like to their library, which would be included in the whole site wide library. I would also have podcasts, videocasts, communities and other things, but I'm mostly interested in how I would set up this potentially large music library. Important, I need to have the option of putting a link to the artists online music seller, and I need to track the clicks so I can get a price-per-click, only when the online music selling client has signed a contract with me.
Sorry about the length. I know I should perhaps break this up. But, I thought it would be a good idea to just get a lot out first, and you more knowledgeable developers can tell me what I should focus on first.
Thanks in advance.
ps I'm writing the site live at the moment but not directly under my domain, you can check out what I have started at www.worldartbox.com/worldartbox
Ben.