How to build a full-blown website

Hi. I’m working on a new project and decided to use modx as the base of this website. I’m new to modx but already discovered that it has lots of potential an flexibility. However, after working trough a big pile of documentation, tutorials and forum posts, I am still not sure how to begin. In my new site I would like to have the fallowing pages/functionality:

Normal visitors
- some simple information pages
- news section with date and tag support (probably a ditto job)
- forum (easy to do with the swf snippet (I prefer phpbb though))
- contact form

Logged in members
- profile page
- member pages

Logged in Editors
- (front end) news item submission form

I would like to know your thoughts on what the best approach might be. If anyone knows a good tutorial that covers a website like this (or wants to write one ), I would be very thankful. A full blown website like this would probably be a good learning point for many new users, as It includes a most of the "popular" functions. Maybe something to include in the standard modx installation

Anyway, thanks in advance!

If you do an install with the demo content a lot of what you’ve asked for is there.

Thanks for your reply bunk58!

Your right about the demo content. It will help me a lot! Stupid that I missed the blog link
Still, any tutorials or different cases are welcome.

B.t.w. - Anybody out there knows the release date of modx 0.9.7?
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,25203.0.html

Most of what you are looking for is standard in MODx. As mentioned the demo site has example of many of these features while others may have more modern solutions for (some snippets have evolved like WebLoginPE which is what you would want to use for user profiles).

The Forum integration is where the most effort will be.

Ditto for the news section, NewsPublisher for posting new posts, eForm or SPForm for the contact form, WebLoginPE for the user profile and login.. and the forum bridge you choose to use should do it.

Thanks for the rap up dev_cw. Coming from other cms’s modx can be a little confusing (with all its freedom). WebLoginPE is a good tip and I will play with the other snippets until I get the result that I’m looking for.