In the last posting I announced creation of a Web site to assist the homeless in obtaining services, and my enrollment in a class to update my Web page authoring skills. My initial efforts led to my awareness that there are "content management systems" (CMS) which can be used to create a Web site without the complexities of writing Web page code to create and manage the site. So I have abandoned my class, and my original domain name, replacing it with
homelessinseattle.net. An image of the mockup follows:
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Initial mockup of part of the home page of the new Web site to serve the homeless
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The disadvantage of using a CMS is that some functionality may be sacrificed. The advantage gained is that a simpler method may be used to create the site and it may become easier for colleagues to maintain the site without extensive training. Also, backups to the site are facilitated, so that if it crashes it will be easier to restore.
The program I've chosen to use to create and support homelessinseattle.net is Joomla, a popular program for building and maintaining Web sites with a great number of support resources to draw on, as well as online training. The training, elegance of the program and available resources lends promise that this effort will be more sustainable.
More to come...
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