From: chris on
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.