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Post April 4th, 2008, 3:59 am

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thanks for the link atno.

Thanks Rose. It appeared at first that everyone else missed it.

Sorry ATNO, I didn't miss it, I just have some reservations about rolling out a product that's still in a testing phase to such a large group of people. Whichever tool we choose will be ghosted onto 7,700 district computers, so I want to make sure it's fully tested first.

I will definitely have a look at it, though.

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Post April 4th, 2008, 3:59 am

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Post April 4th, 2008, 7:10 am

The link I think you overlooked was the second one. This one isn't a beta.


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I just did a quick search. This was the first I looked at, and it looks pretty promising.

http://lenya.apache.org/

If that doesn't foot the bill, try this search in Google
open source multi website wysiwyg
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Post April 4th, 2008, 1:34 pm

have you thought about rolling out a more full featured CMS like http://www.joomla.org/ with predefined templates and content areas. You'd lose all the existing sites, but it seems to me that while having a custom built website (even one built with frontpage)is nice, its actually hindering your goal of acceptance.

My wife is a teacher and even though she's capable of building her own site via frontpage or even hand coded html, she would say that there are many more important uses of her time. IE, why should she spend time she doesn't have to build a website instead of correcting tests, posting grades, braking up fights, calling parents, etc, etc, etc.

My point is that if you don't require people to build a site from the ground up and instead allow them to fill in content in a way thats about as easy as writing an email, you'll likely have a lot more people who are willing to make an effort.
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Post April 5th, 2008, 2:59 am

graphixboy wrote:
have you thought about rolling out a more full featured CMS like http://www.joomla.org/ with predefined templates and content areas. You'd lose all the existing sites, but it seems to me that while having a custom built website (even one built with frontpage)is nice, its actually hindering your goal of acceptance.

My wife is a teacher and even though she's capable of building her own site via frontpage or even hand coded html, she would say that there are many more important uses of her time. IE, why should she spend time she doesn't have to build a website instead of correcting tests, posting grades, braking up fights, calling parents, etc, etc, etc.

My point is that if you don't require people to build a site from the ground up and instead allow them to fill in content in a way thats about as easy as writing an email, you'll likely have a lot more people who are willing to make an effort.


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900+ teachers with their very own website? That sounds like a terrible flaw in thinking.

Well, that's what they've been used to for almost 7 years now. Up until this time, they've all been using FrontPage to design their sites, but now that FP has gone away and the new licensing costs for Expression Web are so prohibitive, we are looking at open source solutions instead. Teachers like the flexibility and creativity that comes along with designing sites that are not part of a CMS template environment.

** Can you suggest any open source WYSIWYG web design programs?
** Can you suggest any CMS solutions?

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Post April 5th, 2008, 9:51 am

I did read that, and also the rest of the question...
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** Can you suggest any CMS solutions?

I answered the second part of the question and backed it up with the reasoning of a better chance of accomplishing the goal of adoption across the district.
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Post April 5th, 2008, 2:44 pm

Point taken, my apologies graphixboy :D
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Post April 7th, 2008, 4:31 am

graphixboy wrote:
I did read that, and also the rest of the question...
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** Can you suggest any CMS solutions?

I answered the second part of the question and backed it up with the reasoning of a better chance of accomplishing the goal of adoption across the district.

I totally agree with the CMS thinking and I ran it by our IT Director, but she still doesn't want to take creative control away from the teachers now that they've had it for so long. She's focused on finding an open source Web design program for now.

I still can't find anything better than Kompozer. Thoughts?
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Post April 11th, 2008, 2:59 am

Go with Joomla and learn from it's tutorials.

Joomla an open source

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