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

Andrew Chapman blindandrew at gmail.com
Fri Aug 27 14:15:18 UTC 2010


Thanks for the info David!

BTW, how has the login info?

Regarding accessibility, content editing shouldn't be inaccessible
given the proper setup. It is also possible to set up drupal to use
wiki-style mark-up which very simple.

I was actually thinking about either drupal or joomla because the
ability to integrate with CiviCRM to manage member lists, mailings,
events, etc. as well articles and "generic" content.

Sorry Floyd, I'm over here coming up with software to automate the
chapter mailings too! Oh, well. We still love you.

Another note on CMS accessiblity. I know Plone is accessible, and is
also a great CMS in general. It does, so far as I can tell, fall short
on CRM integration and depends on Python.

I must be honest, this would be the first time I've done back-end
admin work with drupal. However, I am both quick and eager to learn
and have been wanting to use CMS for a while but never had a use for
it.

If everybody's interested I can go off and finishing reading the
Drupal docs, and we could back up the current version of the website
and give Drupal a try. What do you guys think?

P.S. Inaccessiblity of Content Management Systems presents a bit of a
problem in regards to employment as many multinational corporations
use them to facilitate decentralized workflows.

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:11 PM, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
> The nfbnet.org site where your site is houses has drupal for your
> installation.  From your cPanel page go to fantastico deluxe and you can
> install it from there.
>
> Dave
>
> At 01:50 PM 8/25/2010, you wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>                           David Andrews:  dandrews at visi.com
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