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I have to design a website for a school. I have to had sections of one page only like the (About us) page.. and sections with a list of pages like a section for the dean's list where every semester a new list is published... and a multiple news sections where I can assign a news section for each students club...
I also want some of the popular features like the Links Index and the Forum and a Guest Book.
I want to be able to assign users to each section and allow each to post only in his own section.
I want the main page to have the latest news and articles published in all the sections..
All of this should be easy to configure and design.. I prefer if the design flexible.. I don't like the standard cm design where all the links are text on the left and the content in the middle.. I want to be able to have links in the header links in the footer and be able to control how the sections links look like and the location of the links.
And it should be also Extremly user friendly..And it should have a good development society that can help me in fixing the problems I have and to guarantee the availability of new features..
I have taken a look at Xoops and PostNuke .. but then discovered that there are many other Content Management Systems..
So what do you recommend me to use? PostNuke? Xoops? Any other system? Please name the system that you recommend and mention why. I have already taken a look at the other threads talking about content management systems but I need an advice from people who already use them and can tell me what to use based on my needs mentioned above. And please mention why do you recommend it.
Thanks everybody.
I have to design a website for a school.
Then design and implement something - using one of the pre-rolled CMS packages will come back and bite you in the ascii unless it (and it's packages) match your requirements document...
Best find something that's capable of doing much of what you're after but allowing for ample opportunity to do your own thing. There's no "one shoe fits all" solution out there. Likewise, there's no "instant coffee" at the bar, you're more or less going to have to brew your own.
In my adventure I scoped out most of what was out there. Much of the stuff I came across struck me as being no more than over-blown bulletin board service stuff. Of the others, they were either too proprietory and thus inflexible or involved a "learning curve" that seemed too daunting given the resources made available - as in time and money.
In this respect cmsopensource proved to be a good starting point to check and compare some of these packages.
The app I'm now using provides a workable base - as in handling the user admin and security. The forum is adequate. It has a few other interesting features and the community supporting this cms does a fair job on both the development and support end. This is important - the user community I mean.
Anything else required in this exercise were items hacked to suit. That's been one of the attractive features of this particular platform, its been quite easy to do that as it provided both the flexibility and scalabity I was after.
However, and this needs to stressed this here, this particular app suited this particular assignment. It may not work elsewhere.
jatar_k is a person after my own heart. Initially I set out to do my own thing - as in pulling in a BBS package, started writing up a couple of routines and was going to take it from there - that is, until I figured out that I was doing nothing more that reinventing the wheel. HTH.
Which Nuke? There is PostNuke and PHPNuke.
So far PostNuke has *the worst* site for usability I have found. I couldn't find documentation for the thing anywhere.
PHPnuke had great docs.
