Looking for web platform for blogs, user uploaded photo/video, ratings, membership, etc

Question

I'm looking for software to redo a website a friend of mine has but don't want to maintain anymore. I'd like users to be able to register and post blogs, photo galleries (preferably with multiple file upload using flash or something) and videos. I'd like users to be able to rate those posts and make comments on them. I'd also like to be able to have categories like the highest rated, most recent or by a tags such as outdoors, travel, family, etc.

As the admin i should also be able to remove content or block people for being abusive.

I'd prefer to use an open source solution. I'm currently looking at dotnetnuke and wordpress with some 3rd party modules. Does anyone know of a platform that does this? I'd also prefer it to be in asp.net but thats not necessary. The main thing is that its easy to use.

Answer 1

If your preference is ASP.NET, then yes, choose DotNetNuke. There are a multitude of free and/or low cost modules to do all the things you're talking about, not to mention those built in to the base framework. There is also wide user base and community support to help you address any setup or operational issues that might arise.

Answer 2

If you're not averse to Python/Django you should take a look at Pinax -- sounds like it'll do most of what you want (and then some).

Answer 3

You could look into using Drupal http://drupal.org/

Answer 4

Could look at SubText....Open Source project run by Phil Haack.