New Guy With Questions

[student27]

Howdy, howdy!

I'm looking for a freebie. Specifically, I'm looking for a free web hosting site which will accommodate a study-team, a type of virtual think-tank where a small group of like-minded individuals from any corner of the world can collaborate privately on some theories in order to produce something worth publishing.

I envision the site to have one public page with a login. Once logged in, the team members will have access to a forum (like this one on Zymic), as well as a documents-area for pdf's, etc., an area for still-images, and a video section if possible.

I've spent most of yesterday and today looking for a web-hosting site which might meet my needs, and Zymic appears to be a good candidate. But, it's hard to tell because of the limited information presented. So, I'm posting this message in hopes that someone will be able to answer my questions.

o Does Zymic provide a way to create both public and private pages where the private pages are accessible after logging in?
o Does Zymic offer a plugin (or whatever it's called) to add a forum to the site I want to create?
o Does Zymic offer a way to create a documents page for uploading and viewing files (docs, images, video)?

Thanks in advance.

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Howdy, howdy!

I'm looking for a freebie. Specifically, I'm looking for a free web hosting site which will accommodate a study-team, a type of virtual think-tank where a small group of like-minded individuals from any corner of the world can collaborate privately on some theories in order to produce something worth publishing.

I envision the site to have one public page with a login. Once logged in, the team members will have access to a forum (like this one on Zymic), as well as a documents-area for pdf's, etc., an area for still-images, and a video section if possible.

I've spent most of yesterday and today looking for a web-hosting site which might meet my needs, and Zymic appears to be a good candidate. But, it's hard to tell because of the limited information presented. So, I'm posting this message in hopes that someone will be able to answer my questions.

Thanks in advance.

you can try wordpress. hope it will help you.thanks.

[student27]

you can try wordpress. hope it will help you.thanks.

It's my understanding that WordPress is only blogging software.

[ssfdre38]

there are others but wp is the mail and most used out there

[student27]

I went and created a website on Zymic and discovered something I didn't know... Zymic doesn't offer any automated software for creating a website... just a place to put a website (which must be created elsewhere).

I did look into WordPress more and found they have a WP-Project option (instead of a blog) but it doesn't appear to offer what I am looking for. What I want is something along the lines of a Yahoo Group, but with a more robust forum interface. I found out that there are flat-forums (like Yahoo) and threaded-forums (like this one on Zymic), and I'm wanting a threaded-forum. I'm looking into possibly using FUDForum (http://fudforum.org) because it is a threaded-forum package and it is free. But that's only a partial solution. I would still need to create the rest of the website with a login page, and a documents area for uploading and accessing docs and images. So, I have a lot to learn, it appears.