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.
y.s.,
Joris
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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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