Just testing the water with this concept for a new module/extension

I originally posted this over at EE but it was over the new year so things have been a little quiet over there - http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/67828/

I have been working on a site where the concept of user manageable blocks of content could be turned on and off.

I currently have a number of ‘blocks’ that are defined in the templates that, at the moment, show single entries of a particular weblog - but essentially these ‘blocks’ could hold any type of content.

While I understand this can be achieved through a weblog/custom field setup but it seems counter intuiative to have to edit an entry and play with drop down yes/no within a weblog to cntrol vontent blocks on a site. I’m trying to keep things as user friendly as possible - especially for the non technical user.

Ideally, I envisaged a module that blocks could be defined and through the CP a user could simply select a block and switch it on and off. This would correspond to a:

{if custom_block =="on"}
{/if}

in a template.

This would allow content blocks to be setup within the template but the user still has full control over which block is turned on or off?

I’d be happy to put some money up for development costs if there is any interest and then release the mod into the community.

Thanks.

After making this post there has been a bit of action over in the EE thread and I don’t like to cross post (even if it is on two different forums). Either way I still like the idea of an extension that could be used as a content/block administration section rather than relying on custom fields within weblogs to control turning content on and off (especially if you dont really want client admins to try and add new entries into that weblog).