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Is A Content Management System in Your Future?

The document discusses and compares three popular content management systems: Drupal, Joomla!, and Plone. It covers their technologies, ease of use, core features, customization options, and resources for learning more. The presenter has experience with these systems and aims to help audiences determine which one may best suit their organization's goals and technology skills.

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Is A Content Management System in Your Future?

The document discusses and compares three popular content management systems: Drupal, Joomla!, and Plone. It covers their technologies, ease of use, core features, customization options, and resources for learning more. The presenter has experience with these systems and aims to help audiences determine which one may best suit their organization's goals and technology skills.

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Is a Content

Management System
in Your Future?

An overview of Drupal, Joomla!, and


Plone
Overview

 Introduction and Disclaimers


 What to Keep in Mind
 Overview: Technologies
 Ease of Use
 Core Features, Add-ons
 Customizing
Darci Hanning

 Software Application Developer


 MLIS, Information School, June 2005
 Coursework on Content Management
 Oregon State Library, Technology
Development Consultant
 Plonista :-)
Disclaimers

 There is no Silver Bullet


 Head start on research
 Presentation will be available at NW
Central: [Link]
Things to Think About

 Your organization’s goals?


 Current technology skills?
 Where will your website live?
 Library-specific features?

 What about YOU?


What is content
management?
 Create/edit/delete content in a shared
repository (database)
 Organize content
 Content can be published/visible or not
based on conditions (workflow, access
permissions)
 Layout control through CSS (+ template
of some kind)
Some benefits

 Manage website through a web browser


 Multiple content editors (access control)
 Allow patron participation
 Control of branding elements
 Archive and reuse content
“Good” CMS

 Content types
 Workflow
 User roles and permissions
 “Versioning”
 Security (unauthorized access)
Technology Platform

Drupal Joomla! Plone

Operating *nix, Windows, *nix, Windows, *nix, Windows,


System OS X OS X

Programming PHP PHP Python


Language

Database MySQL MySQL Zope (Object


oriented)
Ease of Installation
 Drupal and Joomla!
 Web-based installation wizard
 Assumes Apache, MySQL installed and
working
 Plone
 Command line install script for Unix/OS X
and binary install for Windows
 Installs “everything” you need (Python,
Zope, Plone but not Apache)
Ease of Use

 PLANNING YOUR WEBSITE


 What kind of content?
 Blogs, events, news, etc.
 What kind of features?
 Commenting, sorting, searching, etc.
“Content Soup”

“…Drupal treats your content as a


giant soup, with each piece of
content having properties… Specific
kinds of pages, specific sections of
your site are created by pulling up
any content with certain
properties…”
(Joomla is similar to Drupal)
“Content Soup”

Dynamically filtering content based on


properties to display the web page you
want.
“…properties like number of comments,
creation date, author, associated
keywords, etc.”
“Content Soup”

 Joomla! Demo
Considerations

 Ultimate in flexibility
 Mix/match what shows up easily
 Think in terms of properties
 Natural approach for many people
 Manually create menu / navigation.
 Content creation has unique interface.
Hierarchical

 “In place” content creation/editing


 Lots of content types
 Page, news item, event, file, image, etc.
 Common properties for all types
 Title, description, creator
 Unique properties for some
 Event versus Page
Hierarchical

 Plone Demo
Considerations

 Create content “in place” (go where you


want it and add it there)
 Navigation/menus automatically created,
harder to customize
 Lots of default content types
Default Content Types

 Drupal
 Page (no author, timestamps, or comments)
 Story (author, timestamps, comments, and is
always on the “front page”)
 Joomla!
 Articles
 Links
 News Feeds
Additional Content Types

 Community contributed
 Drupal modules
 Joomla! extensions
 Plone products
Workflow

 The ability to control availability of


content by its “state”
 Drupal: add-on module
 Joomla!: ??
 Plone: built-in
Security

 PHP is relatively non-secure


 Monitor PHP security announcements
 Monitor Drupal and Joomla! security
announcements
 Zope/Plone is relatively more secure
 Still, monitor Zope and Plone news
announcements
Core Features
Drupal Joomla! Plone
WYSIWYG Ed A Y Y
Site Search Y Y Y
Blogs/RSS Y Y A/Y
RSS Aggr. Y ? Y
Wiki A ? Y
Friendly URLS A A Y
Forums Y A A
Versioning Y A Y
Library Features

 Drupal
 MARC, OAI-PMH, Bibliography, III
Authentication, Z39.50 search, Millennium
integration, remote search
 Joomla
?
 Plone
 OAI-PMH, Bibliography
Customization

 Layout / Display:
 Templates: page structure
 CSS: style and color
 Contributed Themes
 **Documentation**
 How quickly does it become hard to do
interesting things?
Customization

 Functionality
 Drupal modules
 Some core features are not ON by default
 Joomla! Extensions
 Plone products
 Some core features are not ON by default
Customization

 Be thoughtful in your selection


 Not all extensions, modules, products are
created equally
 Responsive developer?
 Good history? Other contributions?
 Good documentation?
 Don’t go crazy with a ton of add-ons!
 Upgrade issues
 Potential conflicts with other add-ons
 Test it first!
General Closing Remarks

 Must have a team the works


 Learning curve
 Some support problems
 Extensions are written by anyone in the
community – ANYONE!
 Play! Ask Questions!
Resources: Drupal

 [Link]
 drupalib: [Link]
 [Link]: libraries:
[Link]
 Free, 2-hour sandbox site:
[Link]
(user: admin pass: demo)
Resources: Joomla!

 [Link]
 Joomla in Libraries:
[Link]
 Free, 2-hour sandbox site:
 [Link]
mla/[Link] (user: admin pass: demo)
Resources: Plone

 [Link]
 Install Plone locally:
[Link]

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