Re: CMS

2009-03-25 Thread Brian Chabot
Dan Coutu wrote: Lori Hitchcock wrote: Working with a company developing a website in a LAMP environment and starting to look at CMS. Hearing good and bad about both Joomla and Drupal. The needs to be very simple for non-techs to add content. For clients with simpler needs I

Re: a Joomla! view from LUGOR territory in Western NY [WAS Re: CMS ]

2009-03-25 Thread Raymond Cote
Carl Helmers wrote: Hi Ray... [and Lori and et al in GNHLUG ] Hi Carl: Great to hear from you. Hope the past winter was better for you in upstate then it was here in NH (though I do note the list of Emergency Backup links on your site). Joomla is definitely one of the popular CMS systems out

Re: CMS

2009-03-24 Thread Roger H. Goun
2009/3/24 Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.com: Using Joomla currently; it seems to work well.  Some plugins were required to make it do what we wanted, though.  In particular the built-in file upload tool is crap, and there are form submission and tabbed-page plugins that are quite handy. 

Re: CMS

2009-03-24 Thread Raymond Cote
Lori Hitchcock wrote: Working with a company developing a website in a LAMP environment and starting to look at CMS. Hearing good and bad about both Joomla and Drupal. The needs to be very simple for non-techs to add content. Does anyone have any advice or experience with either

Re: CMS

2009-03-24 Thread Dan Coutu
Lori Hitchcock wrote: Working with a company developing a website in a LAMP environment and starting to look at CMS. Hearing good and bad about both Joomla and Drupal. The needs to be very simple for non-techs to add content. Does anyone have any advice or experience with either

a Joomla! view from LUGOR territory in Western NY [WAS Re: CMS ]

2009-03-24 Thread Carl Helmers
new site at the end of December. While not obvious to me when Mark suggested /Joomla!/ to me last July, WWW research and then experimenting with a beta version of my now on line /Joomla! /site has shown this CMS to provide a great way to create an editorial oriented site ala a personal

Re: CMS

2009-03-24 Thread Ted Roche
Lori Hitchcock wrote: Working with a company developing a website in a LAMP environment and starting to look at CMS. Hearing good and bad about both Joomla and Drupal. The needs to be very simple for non-techs to add content. Does anyone have any advice or experience with either

Re: CMS comparison [ was: Web software for a family web site? ]

2007-02-09 Thread Ben Scott
On 2/8/07, Seth Cohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, looks like I'll be doing not one, but 2 Intro to Drupal presentations. In April in Peterborough, and in May in Concord. And when are you going to do Nashua, hmmm? They've got the best on-site food and beer of any GNHLUG meeting. (Also the

Re: CMS comparison [ was: Web software for a family web site? ]

2007-02-09 Thread Seth Cohn
If the first 2 go really well, and there is a demand, Nashua can be next. On 2/9/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And when are you going to do Nashua, hmmm? They've got the best on-site food and beer of any GNHLUG meeting. (Also the only on-site food and beer, but it's still pretty

CMS comparison [ was: Web software for a family web site? ]

2007-02-08 Thread Paul Lussier
Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Coincidentally, Guy Pardoe is doing a presentation on Joomla!, one of the top dozen contenders (along with Xaraya, that GNHLUG member Jonathan Linowes presented last year [1]) this very evening in Peterborough: I would love a follow-up posting of this

Re: CMS comparison [ was: Web software for a family web site? ]

2007-02-08 Thread Ted Roche
!) I converted my blog to WordPress a while ago. Seems like a pretty solid project. But it is blog-specific software and not as flexible as a general-purpose CMS. I've been fairly impressed so far, but also planned on looking at Joomla! (with, imo, has a cooler name just because it sounds rather

Re: CMS comparison [ was: Web software for a family web site? ]

2007-02-08 Thread Paul Lussier
Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I converted my blog to WordPress a while ago. Seems like a pretty solid project. But it is blog-specific software and not as flexible as a general-purpose CMS. Can you define the difference then between what Joomla! can do that WordPress can't? From what I

Re: CMS comparison [ was: Web software for a family web site? ]

2007-02-08 Thread Ted Roche
On Feb 8, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Paul Lussier wrote: Can you define the difference then between what Joomla! can do that WordPress can't? From what I can tell, WP has plugins available to do damn near everything. Nope, I can't. I set up WordPress as a single-user blog and haven't explored much

Re: CMS comparison [ was: Web software for a family web site? ]

2007-02-08 Thread Seth Cohn
Can you define the difference then between what Joomla! can do that WordPress can't? From what I can tell, WP has plugins available to do damn near everything. While Wordpress can do a lot, at the end of the day, it's a blog, not a CMS. If your goal is blogging first, and other items secondary

Re: CMS comparison [ was: Web software for a family web site? ]

2007-02-08 Thread Ted Roche
On Feb 8, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Seth Cohn wrote: I'll volunteer right now to do a Drupal introduction at a upcoming Concord GNHlug meeting, if someone will schedule it. How's May 7th or June 4th work for you? Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

Re: CMS comparison [ was: Web software for a family web site? ]

2007-02-08 Thread Seth Cohn
I'll volunteer right now to do a Drupal introduction at a upcoming Concord GNHlug meeting, if someone will schedule it. Ok, looks like I'll be doing not one, but 2 Intro to Drupal presentations. In April in Peterborough, and in May in Concord. Ah, the joys of offering to do a presentation... I

Re: SLUG (UNH) meeting notes for Mon 9 Jan 2006 - Plone CMS

2006-01-12 Thread Ted Roche
Yeah, saw it in GoogleNews last night. Shouldn't have looked. Poor little thing. Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com On Jan 11, 2006, at 8:04 PM, Greg Rundlett wrote: Don't look. I warned you not to look. ___

Re: SLUG (UNH) meeting notes for Mon 9 Jan 2006 - Plone CMS

2006-01-11 Thread Ted Roche
Thanks, Ben. Work is occupying me day and night right now, so I haven't made a meeting in a while. This sounds like it was a good one! Should we be posting these notes to the wiki, preserving for posterity our impressions of events? I can see a need to try to recall some guy showed

Re: SLUG (UNH) meeting notes for Mon 9 Jan 2006 - Plone CMS

2006-01-11 Thread Bruce Dawson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Roche wrote: | Thanks, Ben. Work is occupying me day and night right now, so I | haven't made a meeting in a while. This sounds like it was a good one! Yea! I've heard that excuse before. ;-) Oops, where was I Monday night? Oh yeah. Right. I

Re: SLUG (UNH) meeting notes for Mon 9 Jan 2006 - Plone CMS

2006-01-11 Thread Greg Rundlett
Tucker demonstrated the web linking feature. Meow. Me-ow? Reference to Tucker's demo of web-linking He found a story/picture on Yahoo of a cyclops kitten. http://slug.gnhlug.org/plone/Members/teh/cyclops-kitten/ Don't look. I warned you not to look.