joomla, wordpress and nucleus for faculty and organizations

JOOMLA, WORDPRESS & NUCLUESHTTP://WWW.TECHNICALPROJECTS.ORG

By Savitri Wilder

What is in Today’s Session?

Introduction Joomla Overview WordPress Overview

Wordpress Wordpress MU

Nucleus Examples Discussion/Q&A

Joomla Overview

For developers: Installation, with basic requirements as follows:

PHP 4.2.x MySQL 3.23.x Apache 1.3.x

Local installation: http://help.joomla.org/content/view/34/132 JSAS XAMPP or similar

Add-ons/extensions (2882 extension as of 4/3/08) Designers

Dreamweaver plug-in Admin

Easy to navigate control panel User

Easy to navigate menu system and front end editing option

Joomla’s Features

Divided by Sections, Categories, and Content Plug-ins can be in the form of Components

(content specialized elements or applications), Modules (used to display different information), and/or Mambots (functional units of code that support the operation of Joomla)

Global configuration Different user privileges Can add to menu and publish to front page

easily

WordPress Overview

Difference between WP and WP-MU Developers

Very easy web interface and same basic server requirements as Joomla

Many extensions, including widgets Designers

I have not tested it yet but there is a Dreamweaver plug-in (works in DW 8 or greater)

Admin Easy to navigate control panel

User Easy to navigate menu system and front end editing

option Users

Different user capabilities

WordPress’s Features

Can have a feel of a full website through its “pages” feature

Great spam catcher through Askismet Great selection of themes Easily embed videos, podcast, or other

Web 2.0 applications Import/export option Full features:

www.wordpress.org/about/features

Nucleus Usage

Nucleus was used before WordPress MU was available

We have no access to files and folders permission in our server

Although Nucleus is a very nice blog application, we found that WP has more features especially with MU

Users have no access to his own control panel Only two levels of user access: admin or user

UCM Joomla Examples

MMSP: www.mmsp.org Uses Community Builder Zip code search

Wild Life Society: www.ucmo.edu/wildlifesociety Paramedico: www.ucmo.edu/paramedico (still

working on CSS) Prevet: www.ucmo.edu/prevet (needs content) Mathforum:

http://faculty.ucmo.edu/mathforum/mathforum

Other Joomla Examples

OSU: http://osu.okstate.edu/ Antioch LA: www.antiochla.edu Antioch St. Barbara: www.antiochsb.edu UMich: www.si.umich.edu/computing W. Carolina U: http://ief.wcu.edu U. of Alabama: http://vast.uah.edu U. of Virginia:

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu Albion: www.albion.edu/sports

UCM WordPress Examples

INST 5400: http://inst5400.technicalprojects.org

GRAP 2610: http://grap2610.technicalprojects.org

Bryan Carter: http://english2205.wordpress.com

Other WordPress Examples

http://www.slconvention.org http://giftedkidsnetwork.com/wp http://www.teach42.com WordPress hosted blogs:

www.wordpress.com

Joomla Links

Joomla: www.joomla.org Installation:

http://help.joomla.org/content/category/48/268/302/

Dreamweaver extension: www.joomlasolutions.com/joomla_dreamweaver/joomla_dreamweaver_extension_1.0.mxp

JSAS: www.jsasonline.com

WordPress Links

WordPress: www.wordpress.org MU: http://mu.wordpress.org Dreamweaver Extension:

http://vikiworks.com/2007/08/22/dw-extension-for-wordpress-template-build

Other Links

FTP: Cyberduck: www.cyberduck.ch Filezilla: www.filezilla-project.org

Compression Apps: 7-Zip: www.7-zip.org

My Contact

Savitri Wilder University of Central Missouri 207B Dockery 660-543-8687 swilder@ucmo.edu http://www.technicalprojects.org