[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by majorvbuser

What I want is a mod that allows a few well known authors I know to be able to upload their own articles as opposed to allowing everybody to upload articles, can I control the ability to upload / edit an article by usergroup or similar? I don't want all users to be able to upload articles only view them.

Yes you can, by adding a new usergroup eg Editors, add the members to this usergroup and give "Adding" permissions only to this usergroup

Originally Posted by majorvbuser

Where we have things like "Breaking articles, important articles" etc can my coder rename those, ie is it doable?

You don't need a coder to chane a phrase or word

Originally Posted by majorvbuser

Where it says "catagories" could I change that text to say "authors" ?

Yes, you can.

Originally Posted by majorvbuser

Where you have catagories such as Songs , Education etc, What I would prefer is to actually set those as the authors names, so instead of "songs" I would have the authors name with a litttle information on that author underneath. I will only be having about 5 - 10 authors submitting articles, I would also like to replace the current images for catagories with the images of the authors.

Yes, you can. Just keep in mind that the description is limited to 255 characters.

Originally Posted by majorvbuser

Although this is not as important i would like users to be able to rate (perhaps with a star system) the authors articles, and ideally to be able to allow registered users to comment on the articles.

For the moment only vbArticles can do it but soon vbJournal will have this feature too.

Originally Posted by majorvbuser

How is it with SE, is it VBSEO compatible? When you add an article , is there a place to add basic html tags such as <TITLE> etc so if the content is spidered it will place something reasonably descriptive in front of the search engine user.

Next upgrade for both vbArticles and vbJournal will be vbSeo friendly.

Originally Posted by majorvbuser

Does it allow the authors to upload images/video?

Currently only in vbArticles.

Originally Posted by majorvbuser

Do we get full control of what goes into " important articles , editors choice " etc etc. Or is important articles based on say "total views" etc.

Usergroups with moderation permission are setting articles as Important etc etc.

Originally Posted by majorvbuser

I don't mind purchase vbarticles if this can't do it but would like to know what you suggest..

If you're not in rush of time, vbJournal will be better than vbArticles as it will have features of vbNews too. Everything is up to you.

Originally Posted by majorvbuser

Thanks

You welcome