www.oncampusuk.co.uk have a CMS product in the UK that was writen specially for Student Unions. We also found that CMS' available were not best suited to the Student Organisation for various reasons so we wrote our own.
We found Unions wanted/needed was a comprehensive web based site builder that was easy to use and restricted the user into styles and templates that were pre-defined by the designer. All adminstration of the site needed to be performed over the web; adding templates, adding/modifying new pages, defining structure of a page, editing the content of a page and managing users rights. Maybe what we have done is not that revolutionary but we now have over 24 UK Student Unions using the system and we can create new sites in minutes that can then be editted online. Some sites that use our system Bristol http://www.ubu.org.uk/ Oxford http://www.ousu.org/ Leicester http://www.leicesterstudent.org/ Liverpool http://www.l-s-u.com/ Greenwich http://www.suug.co.uk Brighton http://www.ubsu.net/ Lancashire http://www.yourunion.co.uk/ Huddrsfield http://www.huddersfieldstudent.com/ Our own site http://www.oncampusuk.co.uk/main We actually host the sites and provide the software for free in exchange for an advertising partnership and we now have over 24 unions signed up and using our software but we would gladly disus with anyone who wanted to use the system under different terms. Ian Moss oncampusuk -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cms-list-admin@;cms-list.org]On Behalf Of Pelletier, Jo-Ann Sent: 01 November 2002 20:51 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [cms-list] Advice for CMS for College I am wondering if someone from a medium sized college (6,000 students, community college preferred) has any suggestions for a relatively inexpensive, easy to use CMS. As with most CMS, it appeared from my research that they are not very well suited for colleges where many, many people are responsible for their own sites/content. Any advice would be most appreciated. Jo-Ann Pelletier Director, Information Technology Services Bristol Community College Fall River, MA --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma. -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
