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Dave K.

I may be needing to post a community use website which I
foresee using for: 1. collecting petition signatures, 2.
posting discussion items of community developments, 3.
assigning and delegating specific tasks to be performed
including tracking their progress and reporting, 4.
possibly collecting donations, and 5. posting
articles/forms for download. Which option would be most
suitable for these purposes: "Project Web" or "
Sharepoint Team Web" or "Discussion Web" or are none of
these particularly good options, or is something else more
appropriate? Thank you, in advance.
 
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I may be needing to post a community use website which I
foresee using for:

1. collecting petition signatures,
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I have no idea how someone would sign a petition over
the Internet, and have it legally binding. For sure,
there's no FrontPage template that does this.
2. posting discussion items of community developments.
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I suppose you could use a Discussion Web for this, but the
formatting is likely to be crude. The usual approach is to
make up a Web page for each article, and then add a link
from the home page or some other menu.
3. assigning and delegating specific tasks to be
performed including tracking their progress and
reporting,
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This is really a database application. You could develop
parts of it using Save Results to Database and the
Database Results Wizard, but you'll almost certainly need
to program some of it as ASP or ASP.NET pages.

Alternatively, you could look around for prewritten
packages. Microsoft Project, for example, can do this.
4. possibly collecting donations,
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You would have to contract with a credit card processing
service and then use the HTML or Web pages they provide.
5. posting articles/forms for download.
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This is easy. You just add the article/form file to your
Web, and then hyperlink to it.
Which option would be most suitable for these purposes:
"Project Web" or " Sharepoint Team Web" or "Discussion
Web" or are none of these particularly good options, or
is something else more appropriate? Thank you, in advance.
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None of these templates is really satifactory for the
features you describe. You would need to develop such a
site out of much smaller pieces.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.interlacken.com
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