From: chris on 5 Feb 2010 12:10 On 05/02/2010 16:42, Steve Firth wrote: > chris<ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Do you have any experience of implementing Joomla or >> similar? > > Joomla and Sharepoint. I used Joomla to create a company website with an > e-Business shopping cart using Zen cart. Obviously you won't need that. > > It's most a piece of cake. The easy way is to buy a suitable template > for your site (they are quite cheap) or use one of the free ones or, as > I did, create your own - which takes "quite a bit" of work, but is very > rewarding to do if you like that sort of thing. > > Sadly the site no longer exists, but I've been meaning to create some > more and to do my own company web portal using Joomla. > > There are some nice third part applications to install into Joomla. I > used one to provide a picture gallery. You can also create various types > of role (Administrators, Editors, Content Providers etc). It's also > possible to do tricks like have content available to all and content > available only to subscribers on the same page. > > It would work well for a community/collaborative site. For example at > the school you could nominate some trustworthy individuals as editors > (moderators) to review, approve and publish content. Give others the > rights to publish their own content without being subject to editorial > control and permit parents to be able to create contributions which will > only be published after moderation. > > I've also used and adminsitrated Sharepoint sites. Compared to Joomla > Sharepoint is pretty poor. That's very useful! Thanks very much to all who have replied. I have a much better idea of what's what. Thanks again. |