Drupal For Membership Sites

If you are looking to build a membership site and are considering Drupal, you should give it a try.

When I tried various software in the past, I’d struggled with the coding side of drupal.

However, these Opensource Software programs like Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress just keep getting better and easier over time.  Eventually you find one you like, master how it works and start having fun building membership sites that make money.

With Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress, you do not have to worry because they are free on most basic hosting packages.

To install Drupal and see how you like it, simply use Fantastico on the CPanel of your hosting account.  If you do not know what that it, it is the thing you see when you sign into your hosting account.  It has a dashboard (cpanel) and you find the button that says Fantastico.  Then you follow the wizard to set up your drupal membership website.

If you play with Drupal for a couple of hours and do not like it, then you switch to another one and uninstall Drupal.  No big deal.  Really.  Go give it a try.

2 Responses to “Drupal For Membership Sites”

  1. wildkatana  on June 1st, 2009

    While Drupal does have the functionality that is necessary for a community site, it is somewhat lacking in Paid Membership modules. For a good one, you can check out the Paypal Subscriptions module, located here: http://www.moneyscripts.net/drupal-paypal-subscriptions . It allows you to sell site membership automatically through paypal, and is very customizable. Best module I’ve seen for this type of thing.

  2. wildkatana  on June 18th, 2009

    Following up on my previous post, there is now another free Drupal module which covers this functionality. It is the Click2Sell Suite, made by me, which integrates Click2Sell’s Affiliate network with your Drupal site, allowing you to sell membership subscriptions and giving you the best of both worlds. The link is http://drupal.org/project/click2sell

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