How do we currently update websites?• Users have to go through a technical process

of downloading and uploading files to the server.

FTP for file transfersDreamweaver to edit the pages

How do we currently update websites?• Faculty and staff often have to rely on their DTA.• This often leads to outdated websites and faculty pages.• The software needed to update these pages can be expensive.• Such websites also have no dynamic content.

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Blogging: quick news or events posts

What is the purpose of a content management system (CMS)?

• Helps organize, control, and publish a large body of documents and multimedia content

PDF files Word documents

Examples of document types:

Photos and images

Audio files Video files

What is the purpose of a content management system (CMS)?• Defined user roles in the content (editing, posting, and

so on)• Define workflow (the process of working on content and

publishing it)

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Departments can define their own workflow. For example:

What is the purpose of a content management system (CMS)?• Website editors can easily update all the content of the

site.• Faculty, students, and staff can login to the website and

update their own biography and post CVs, papers, and so on.

User logs in on the website … and can edit their page directly on the webpage with an interface that looks like Microsoft Word

What is the purpose of a content management system (CMS)?• Separates the content from the formatting (the

“look and feel” of the website)

The content and design come together to form the webpage that the visitors see.

By changing the design, we don’t need to touch the content.This makes site updates and changes much more efficient.

Text, pictures, documents, etc

Site layout anddesign

Live web page

The CMS merges them “on the fly”

Why Joomla?

• Joomla is open source, meaning we can look at the code and modify as needed (as opposed to closed, proprietary systems)

• Joomla is completely free to download and use• Joomla is written in PHP, a widely-used

programming language, and relies on MySQL, a widely-used free database software. CDH has expertise in both.

• Joomla has a large development community• The cost of exit is low

Features

• Multilingual support• Large number of extensions already available.• Sophisticated editing interface with easy upload of

many types of files• Built-in search

Brief Demo of Joomla portal websites and features

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Resources

• www.joomla.org• www.mysql.com• www.php.net• www.extension.joomla.org• www.siteground.com• www.w3schools.com• Apress Beginning Joomla From Novice to Professional• Publishing Building Websites with Joomla1.5• Prentice Hall Practical PHP and MySQL