Having used WordPress for over two years I can second that: works like a
charm. But it's definitely more of a blogging thing, although it provides
some rudimentary CMS-functionality. Tuning its looks to one's taste may
provide for some minor headaches.
--
Mr. Joris J. van Zundert (MA)
Huygens Institute
Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences
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On 10/23/06, Erik Vorhes
evorhes@luc.edu wrote:
>
> It might be worth investigating WordPress
http://wordpress.org/, as
> well, as it has similar features to TextPattern. It's a little more
> blog-oriented, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I used it for
> my "Introduction to Shakespeare" class, and it handled the job pretty
> well:
http://erikanderica.org/erik/category/class/luc-274/.
>
> Erik Vorhes
> Loyola U. Chicago
>
> > Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:58:03 -0600
> > From: Herdsman Caedmon
caedmon@uleth.ca
> > Subject: Re: [dm-l] Personal Web site maintenance
> > To: Bill White
minutiae@gmail.com
> > Cc: Digital Medievalist Community mailing list
dm-l@uleth.ca
> > Message-ID:
1161356284.26544.0.camel@odonned-eng06.eng.uleth.ca
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> >
> > You're right the component parts look very interesting.
> >
> > -dan
> >
> > On Fri, 2006-20-10 at 09:20 -0500, Bill White wrote:
> >> On 10/20/06, Bill White
minutiae@gmail.com wrote:
> >>> On 10/20/06, Daniel O'Donnell
caedmon@uleth.ca wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> Does anybody have advice on how to maintain a professional academic
> >>>> homepage--I mean the page one uses for class material,
> >>>> information on
> >>>> research, etc.
> >>>
> >>> I stumbled across this a few days ago while googling for cms systems
> >>> that can work with my local mediawiki installation:
> >>>
> >>>
http://openacademic.org/
> >>>
> >>> I haven't used it, but it may be worth investigating. I'd never
> >>> heard
> >>> of the strangely-named tools they're using - moodle, elgg, drupal.
> >>
> >> Whoops - I think that website may be offering/selling services. At
> >> any rate, the links they provide to moodle et al. may be useful.
> >>
> >> Cheers -
> >>
> >> bw
>
>
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