Hi Folks,
I'm interested in biulding a site like a cooking recipie site (actually, totally different but same concept) that has some text and video associated with each cooking recipie. I want users to be able to contribute recipies and either upload or link to videos on how to cook the actual recipie. So, after some time, there could potentially be 100,000 recipies (ok, dreaming, but just play along...).
First, I'm not sure if I should think about this as being a site with 100,000 pages, or a site with just a few pages, one of which is a page that is populated by a recipie database. Seems the latter is more sensible because managing 100,000 pages would be a nightmare.
So, I need some sort of recipie page template that enforces a consistent page structure. On each recipie page, I will have something like:
- Instructions for cooking (i.e., the recipie itself)
- Video or video link.
- Possible advertisements that are associated with the ingredients used in the recipie.
I want people around the world to contribute to the content of the site. I also want recipies to be cataloged in such a way that people can drill down to find a recipie--say first by region of the world, then by course (breakfast, lunch, dinner), then by main ingredients (e.g., poultry, fish, dairy). Alternatively, I want to be able to search by combining criteria by checking a number of checkboxes (e.g., savory + low-calorie + vegetarian). The main page could be, for example, a synopsis of the top 5 recipies, or maybe the latest 5 recipies posted.
So, is DNN capable of handling a site like this, or serving as the base for a site like this, or is this something that needs to be totally custom developed. Or maybe there is an addon that can handle this? I'm an applications/embedded developer, not much of a web developer yet, so my apologies for a dumb question in advance.
Thank You