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Hi,

I’ve searched the site and can’ find an answer for exactly what I’m looking for, so I’d like to know how hard it would be to build my site with these features:

The site will list deals/promotions by businesses. I will have two types of ‘deals’ - regular and MegaDeal.  These will need to be displayed on the homepage in descending order by date.  MegaDeals will be bold, have a border, or some other visual cue.  The html/css I can handle, but what about creating “custom types” for a)regular deal and b)MegaDeal?  That is, please explain how I’d do this in EE.

The deals to be displayed will be entered by me, but I need to take input from businesses for the deals.  So, I need a data entry form that a busines owner can use to give me all the info regarding a deal, including uploading a picture. These submissions need to be available to me in the backend.  I’ll go through each one and create a regular or MegaDeal entry.

I need for site visitors to be able to create an account and elect to receive a daily email and/or occasional newsletter.

Each of the deals on the homepage should have a page to itself, and I need a “Refer to friend” link where one person can email another the link to a given deal.

Thanks for any info.

what about creating “custom types” for a)regular deal and b)MegaDeal?  That is, please explain how I’d do this in EE.

EE is very flexible so there are probably many ways. The most common would probably be to have a weblog (data set) for “deals” with two categories (standard & mega). You could also distiguish by using a custom field (drop-down) with standard or mega.

So, I need a data entry form that a busines owner can use to give me all the info regarding a deal, including uploading a picture. These submissions need to be available to me in the backend.  I’ll go through each one and create a regular or MegaDeal entry.

You could build a custom form, several ways and plugins to do that or create a Stand Alone Entry Form (SAEF) that makes an entry to a weblog (dataset). From that, you could either use that entry as reference or edit it and make it the live deal. Again, many ways to skin the cat.

I need for site visitors to be able to create an account and elect to receive a daily email and/or occasional newsletter.

You can have them become members and email to that group or you can have them signup to an email list or you could have a weblog (dataset) of entries and they can subscribe to an RSS feed.

Each of the deals on the homepage should have a page to itself, and I need a “Refer to friend” link where one person can email another the link to a given deal.

Having it’s own page is pretty standard (single entry page). You can include an email to friend type link also.