Joomla new project and brief

Joomla is an open source CMS (content management system) which we will be using for this project. CMS allows users or a client to build a website without any we design knowledge what so ever. To make this project easier i will create a list of items i need for my site and get through them.

Planning: Sort out all the different sections, categories and articles. i will make a list of each article I need to cover and get my way through them. Draw a site-map including each section, category and article.

Organize: i need to organize my website using the joomla structure. i need to have all the articles in categories and them in sections. I need to be well organized to pass this project and i need to include the following.
3 Sections
3 Categories
40 Articles

Content: The content i need for my sit is as follows:

Technical:
X-Height
Ascenders
Decenders
Baseline
Kerning
Tracking
Leading
Alignment

Font Faces:
Times
Italics
Grotesk
Bold
Sans
Sans Serif
Retro

Typographers:
15th century
16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
Contempory

Galleries:
Elegant type
Type that fits the bill
Type that gets my attention

Obviously there may be more sections, catergories and articles that i will pick up on my way.

Things that i need to have on my joomla site to pass are:
More than one menu
Nested items on a menu
A blog layout menu entry
A list layout menu entry
At least two page breaks
At least two 'read more' breaks from the home page
A search menu feature
A site wide search box
Search data collection
Visitor registration
Visitor entry page
Visitor exit page
Registered only visible pages
A comprehensive links page
Three categories of user for your site
User details form
Contact Us form
Site wide keywords and meta tags and
keywords Pages organized through appropriate
sections and categories.

I need to make a check list including

Feature Completed work Checked Pages using this feature