On (28/09/05 22:05), A. S. Bradbury wrote: > Apologies if this is not completely on-topic, though I think this is a topic > many readers of this list may have some knowledge of. I attend a UK Sixth > Form College that currently has no form of student-run publication. The > traditional 'student newspaper' concept isn't likely to work for a variety of > reasons, and there is interest in being a little more experimental, setting > up more of a collaborative weblog. The plan is to set up Wordpress, accept > submissions, publish regularly and allow comments. Informed debate forms and > creative arguments are published, and everyone is happy - or at least that's > the plan. The problem is that there's no way the student council can get the > required level of hosting on the college's internal server (the admin is > concerned about security...). > > This leaves only the option of external hosting. Hosted blogs such as blogger > are too inflexible. It should be fairly low traffic, low-bandwidth and > wouldn't be too expensive. It's just hard to get people to agree to allowing > the funds to be spent without an idea of what we might achieve and the > success it would gain. Ideally, I'm interested if anyone knows of a UK web > hosting company or organisation with some web space that would be interested > in helping to enable this project to go forward at no cost? Sorry that this > post is quickly written. Please reply with any > comments/questions/suggestions/offers for help either to the list or to me > personally.
I'm not sure whether this will help but we've been evaluating content management systems for a client; we installed and tried plone, PHPwebsite, drupal and joomla (from the ex-mambo developers). Long story short, we're recommending Joomla for a variety of reasons; when looking at hosting, we came across http://www.netshinesoftware.com who seem close to the joomla project. Netshine offers competitive hosting and may see supporting you as a worthwhile PR exercise ultimately expanding their userbase. Joomla would be an ideal platform on which to build your student newspaper. Worth a try? Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
