cms

Up until yesterday, the design for CCTS's CMS called for using the Textile markup language for the contents of a "block" element (i. e., a paragraph, heading, list item, or table cell). And in fact that's implemented in our code. However, thinking about how to import documents exposed problems with using Textile. …read more

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I am still working on the CMS. I am investigating how we can accept uploads of Microsoft Word documents and extract the content from them to convert to our format. Most recently I contributed some test cases to the tests that get run repeatedly to defend against breaking the code. …read more

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Drupal is a content management system (CMS). It seems to be pretty popular in this crowd. It is implemented in PHP. There are many useful plugins for it. Is the present site based on Drupal? Joomla is another CMS implemented in PHP. Plone is a CMS implemented in Python. …read more

I cannot emphasize enough, the importance of PLANNING OUT YOUR WEBSITE. Before you can even start thinking about what the colors will be, you need to have a few things in place. 3 i can readily think of are: …read more

This is the wiki page for the web development working group. In this group, we will: …read more

Everything’s going quite well here at NTEN as we’re of course very busy tying up all the loose ends before the NTC. As far as what's new and exciting in my work, I finally managed to make a breakthrough in using our sometimes unwieldy CMS (netFORUM) to design a searchable member database for our website. That project had been on my plate since the beginning of January (and until yesterday I’d made very little progress), so it was nice to finally make some real headway there - and it should soon be up on our website and ready for use. …read more

CiviCRM is actually a suite of tools based on the Drupal content management system. A bit tricky to set up (at first), but once configured and running it is VERY powerful. It allows NPOs to coordinate their efforts quite well and collects has good set of tools for this. Some key things it attends to is: Volunteer coordination …read more

Are you ready? I'm leading my first web conference presentation tomorrow afternoon to spread my digital storytelling love on the Neighborhood Networks Quarterly Consortia Conference Call. I met some of these folks back in June at the Digital Storytelling Bootcamp at the (HUD) Neighborhood Networks Regional Technical Assistance Workshops. Check out the Powerpoint if you like. …read more