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* Before choosing a tool, you should investigate how to get the data out, so you know how to get out when you need to exit from the tool | * Before choosing a tool, you should investigate how to get the data out, so you know how to get out when you need to exit from the tool | ||
− | ** Plan the pre-nups for the divorce before the marriage | + | ** Plan the pre-nups for the divorce before the marriage |
Revision as of 22:15, 18 December 2015
Penguin Day: Intro to CMS
Led by Matthew Garcia of AspirationTech
When you download a CMS and use it to put together a website, you get a core set of features:
- create pages
- create blog posts
- upload images
- theme it in different ways
The content being managed could be articles.
Why Open Source CMSes?
- Organizations want to be able to customize things to their needs. With open-source, they get access to the code to make the changes themselves.
- With open source, there’s often a huge worldwide community, so a lot of developers will help internationalize it.
- Developers will fix bugs, enhance features, etc.
Biggest open-source CMSes:
- Wordpress
- Is a full CMS now, but is a bit lower on database integration and building modules (e.g., photolight boxes, shopping carts)
- Slightly less powerful than the other two if your organization has very advanced needs
- Is more creative, lots of good design themes
- Good for simple websites, shorter learning curve for beginners
- Can switch a backend setting to make it look like a website than a blog
- Can edit the footer.php to remove the “Powered by Wordpress” line
- Tutorials at lynda.com
- Discussions at wordpress.org
- Wordpress.com is a free instance of a website from Wordpress.org
- Wordpress.org → download CMS for free and host it on your own (paid) host server
- Lynda.com has a 3-part tutorial for Wordpress.org:
- Beginning your site
- Doing it on your own computer
- Migrating it from your own computer to a hosted site
- Drupal
- Enterprise-wide system
- Most complicated, but more commonly used than Joomla
- Joomla
- Enterprise-wide system
Why CMS and Which CMS?
- All 3 are designed with GUIs so you don’t have to know how to code in order to use them
- The idea of using a CMS to create a website is that you don’t have to touch the code if you don’t care to
- Before choosing a tool, you should investigate how to get the data out, so you know how to get out when you need to exit from the tool
- Plan the pre-nups for the divorce before the marriage