[Home-on-the-range] Andrew Chapman NFBk State Web Site

[Floyd]

If you would like to do the work it would be fine with me. I have no desier to be a web master, but no one elce was doing it. Our site was soo out dated it was only good for history lessons. 
Now It is starting to become curent and informative.


Thank You 
Floyd

--- On Wed, 8/25/10, Andrew Chapman <blindandrew at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Andrew Chapman <blindandrew at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Home-on-the-range] NFBk State Web Site
To: "NFB of Kansas Internet Mailing List" <home-on-the-range at nfbnet.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 1:50 PM


Hey Floyd,

I was actually thinking that a content management system would be a great idea for the affiliate website.

In short this would be a system that would allow authorized people to make content postings without having to worry about formatting and stuff. This would allow us to develop a design once and then focus on content generation/delivery in a fashion not unlike wikipedia (though with much better access controls and without everybody seeing an "edit" link). 

This would also help with the "one webmaster" problem and allow the many people in our affiliate who are great at creating content to more easily leverage their skills.

Examples of these systems include:
http://www.scribus.net/ (using drupal) and
http://berkeley.edu/ (running TikiWiki)

These are very simple to install as they simply require put a few files on the server just like a regular web page, and could be maintained fairly easily.

I think it would make building/maintaining/updating the site a lot slicker and make it easier to integrate some of our other projects like posting our newsletter, meeting minutes and/or convention media.

If your interested I can use my old netbook to put together a demo of a couple of these packages for state convention so people can get a feel for what it would look like and how it might work.

Just a thought. 

--
Andrew Chapman


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