Dreamweaver - CMS for elementary school website

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CMS for elementary school website

Bushido

2006-02-12, 6:34 pm

I've been asked to design a site for an elementary school. They eventually want
to manage it from a classroom setting. The solutions I know of are Contribute 3
server edition, and a web based CMS. I have no programming knowledge, so if I
develop a web based CMS - which I'd prefer - I need a freindly development
program, similar to the advanced HTML editor offered by DMXZone.

All suggestions to help create a web based CMS, and any software advice is
most appreciated

darrel

2006-02-12, 6:34 pm

> I've been asked to design a site for an elementary school. They eventually
> want
> to manage it from a classroom setting. The solutions I know of are
> Contribute 3
> server edition, and a web based CMS. I have no programming knowledge, so
> if I
> develop a web based CMS - which I'd prefer - I need a freindly development
> program, similar to the advanced HTML editor offered by DMXZone.

Schools should be aware of accessibility issues and, as such, the only
option I could recommend for inline WYSIWYG text editing is xstandard:

http://www.xstandard.com

Note that that's just a WYSIWYG editor...you still need to connect that to
some sort of content management system.

What specific system to use and/or deciding whether to buy one off the shelf
of develop your own is dependant on the specific needs of the organization
and the particular content they want to maintain.

-Darrel

clintonG

2006-02-12, 6:34 pm

Are you aware of Microsoft Class Server? Support for questions is at
news://microsoft.public.classserver

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> I've been asked to design a site for an elementary school. They eventually
> want
> to manage it from a classroom setting. The solutions I know of are
> Contribute 3
> server edition, and a web based CMS. I have no programming knowledge, so
> if I
> develop a web based CMS - which I'd prefer - I need a freindly development
> program, similar to the advanced HTML editor offered by DMXZone.
>
> All suggestions to help create a web based CMS, and any software advice is
> most appreciated
>

darrel

2006-02-12, 6:34 pm

> Are you aware of Microsoft Class Server? Support for questions is at
> news://microsoft.public.classserver

Looks like it is built upon Sharepoint?

If so, I wouldn't go anywhere near that thing.

-Darrel

darrel

2006-02-12, 6:34 pm

> Why? Sharepoint is no worse than any other system out there, and is
> quite easy to manage and set up......

We all have our opinions, I suppose.

After attending a week long Sharepoint training session as well as talking
to consultants who've worked on it, I came to the conclusion that sharepoint
is PERFECT if you want to use is AS-IS and attached to all your Teamsite
sites.

If you want to change/customize anything, then it becomes an annoying system
that just gets in the way of everything you want to do.

It is also dependant on front page and the whole 'iframes everywhere' method
of 'web parts' is just absurd, IMHO.

Sharepoint is just a piece of software they discovered in house that some
team was using, slapped the MS logo on it, added a few zeros to the price
tag and sent out the door.

-Darrel

Steve Grosz

2006-02-12, 6:34 pm

Why? Sharepoint is no worse than any other system out there, and is
quite easy to manage and set up......

darrel wrote:
>
>
> Looks like it is built upon Sharepoint?
>
> If so, I wouldn't go anywhere near that thing.
>
> -Darrel
>
>