[Web4lib] Content management systems

[Will Kurt]

While I don't use it for my library's website, I do run a library job 
site on the side using Joomla (www.lib-bling.com, if you're 
interested).  I've recently had a bunch of volunteers offer to help 
me out and I've been trying to train them with it, so far so good, 
although no one is doing anything more than publishing job 
postings.  I find for doing all of your basic website things Joomla 
works awesome, however the more I try to stretch its capabilities the 
more I find myself doing more and more 'hackish' things with it. 
Still it has a very friendly user interface for administration so it 
should allow people who are not entirely comfortable with HTML to 
still get a lot done.

If you have a usb-flash drive and want to play around, 'Webserver on 
a Stick' http://www.chsoftware.net/en/useware/wos/wos.htm can package 
Joomla, Drupal, and Mambo so you can run a little apache test server 
from your thumb-drive, and try them all with little effort.

I would be interested in what any Drupal users have to say, as I hear 
good things about that.

If any has any additional questions I'd be glad to take them, 
although I'm far from a Joomla expert.

--Will


At 03:41 PM 3/19/2007, Jonathan Bloy wrote:
>I'm starting to look at adding a content management system to my
>library's website (yes, I'm still in the era of manual editing).  I'm
>aware of some of the biggies like Drupal, Joomla, etc., but I'm curious
>to know what people are using out there in the library world.
>
>What CMS are you using?  What do or don't you like about it?
>
>  - Jonathan
>
>--
>Jonathan Bloy
>Web Services Librarian
>Edgewood College
>Madison, Wisconsin
>http://library.edgewood.edu
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