Author – Defaulting users and post form

Hi all,

I have finally completed my wordpress website half way through, now I am struggling with one thing and I’m hoping someone could help me out.

My wordpress site, http://www.sweepbook.com/rate-this/ where registered users are defaulted to Authors. What I would like to do is, instead of the users seeing the default path when posting, http://www.sweepbook.com/rate-this/wp-admin/post-new.php I would like to know if I can use a more user friendly post form that does not contain the backend of WordPress OR if I could have all the WordPress details hidden for them.

I am aware there is a plugin to control what is seen in the WordPress backend post page, but I’d really like to limit my plugin usage and keep the site simple.

Any advice will be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Henry