My bi-annual plea for Site Construction

[Bingo]

Hey guys ...

any web students out there that want to build up Calgarypuck on the side a help a guy out? We've been running this base unit for a long time. the message board is slick but we need a new face for the main site as well as some goodies like ...

- cross index of the main page to the message board for hot topics
- an admin tool for writers to use to put up their stories
- an indexing feature for all copy so we can find them again.

If you or your company is feeling charitable ... let me know!

Thanks

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by Bingo

Hey guys ...

any web students out there that want to build up Calgarypuck on the side a help a guy out? We've been running this base unit for a long time. the message board is slick but we need a new face for the main site as well as some goodies like ...

- cross index of the main page to the message board for hot topics
- an admin tool for writers to use to put up their stories
- an indexing feature for all copy so we can find them again.

If you or your company is feeling charitable ... let me know!

Thanks

I have been messing around with the CRMs Joomla and Wordpress and I think they would be a great fit. Admin panel to submit articles and it would be fairly easy to integrate stuff like RSS, Flames Sched, salary table etc.

I can whip up a quick test site if you'd like. I don't think there is a need to build something from the ground up.

[Bingo]

any help would be great ... let me know
thanks

[photon]

I've been playing with the latest version of Joomla as well, so Barnes if you want PM me and I can give you the URL and the passwords and such.

[llama64]

I'd also suggest looking into Drupal. It's a lot more customizable then Joomla at the cost of being more complicated to setup.

I've got some experience with Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress, both programming and styling. I'm up for helping out if needed

[photon]

I've setup a forum for people that want to help with this so we can discuss it, PM me if you are interested (and really honestly do think you have the time to put into it) and I'll give you access.

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by llama64

I'd also suggest looking into Drupal. It's a lot more customizable then Joomla at the cost of being more complicated to setup.

I've got some experience with Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress, both programming and styling. I'm up for helping out if needed

I haven't deployed Drupal anywhere yet, but I notice, from subscribing to the Drupal security announcements mail list, that there are frequent security patches for various parts of Drupal. In your experience, is Drupal difficult to keep secured in a production environment?

-Scott

[alltherage]

I'm in for graphics if you need them, i'm not so good at the html though. PM'd.

[AC]

I'll lend my graphic services as well if they're needed.

[llama64]

Originally Posted by sclitheroe

I haven't deployed Drupal anywhere yet, but I notice, from subscribing to the Drupal security announcements mail list, that there are frequent security patches for various parts of Drupal. In your experience, is Drupal difficult to keep secured in a production environment?

-Scott

I havn't had much trouble with it, but I should mention I haven't touched the newest version yet. I replaced my main Drupal site with a Wordpress version since it was far easier to style and the site didn't need as much flexibility as Drupal provides.

The biggest liability to Drupal though is through it's modules. Many of them directly access privileged information such as user accounts and permissions, so a security update might not affect a module until that module itself is updated.

I could see it being a headache, but not much more then any other major CMS system.