Hello,
I am creating a blog site that will have many contributors to the blog, as bloggers, and there are also a smaller team of publishers or editors (doesn't matter what they're called..) who will then approve and publish the blog posts.

I would prefer to only allow the bloggers to login to the front-end of the site, without ever going into the administrator area of the site. Is it possible to set up a login for this that then will show the bloggers an area on the front end of the site where they can create a new blog post? I do not want them to be able to publish it, but I do want them to be able to create the entire post including inserting images and/or other media like Youtube or Vimeo videos. Currently they will all be blogging for 1 single blog/newspaper, but as it grows we plan to separate the blog teams based on the university or college they attend. Is all this possible from just the front-end of the website?

The publishers or editors, they need to have all the same permissions as the bloggers, but they will also be responsible for approving and publishing each article submitted by the bloggers. But, I do not want the publishers/editors to have access to any other areas of the site like creating menu links or categories, or changing the layout of the site.

I know where the permissions areas are and how to change them in both Easy Blog and Joomla, it's just I don't know the best way to do what I need to do. Nor can I find any good resources or tutorials on how to really handle this.

Any advice you have would be greatly appreciated !!