[Wikinews-l] Non Profit Website Design: Examples andBestPractices

[Brian McNeil]

GoDaddy offers Drupal 6.11

 

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[mailto:wikinews-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Terin Stock
Sent: 18 May 2009 18:00
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Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Non Profit Website Design: Examples
andBestPractices

 

Are any of these content management systems worth looking at?


I would just wipe out the whole site and do a Drupal CMS, if that's what
we're looking for. We can add blogs to the Drupal system, and do a custom
theme to be similar to what we have. I would, however, prefer to install
Drupal manually, as the ones that tend to be in hoster panels tend to be
pretty outdated.

On which note, who has installed/run MediaWiki?


I did, albeit breifly. Found it too big for the purpose I wanted. I can look
at restricting access though.

#Terin



On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org>
wrote:

Are any of these content management systems worth looking at?

 

https://hostingconnection.godaddy.com/AllApplications.aspx?id=8 (apart from
those with a $ next to them). I might be able to get something else for
Linux installed and running manually, but no promises there.

 

Site is now on PHP 5.x with 2 WordPress installs and a MediaWiki install
supposedly coming online soon.

 

The general look of the site is pretty good, and there's plenty of graphics
that could be used even if we started from scratch again. I'm not entirely
happy with the Editors' blog setup, as far as I can tell it was hacked
together instead of written as a WordPress theme. Looking at the 'opinions'
blog I've installed, there's a lot can be done to tweak a theme.

 

So, we'll need a 'house style' to be applied across the entire site - front,
blogs, wiki. Assuming a main colour for this style, then a different main
colour but all the same appearance for the opinions blog to distinguish it
from the journalism process of editors'. The wiki might be the trickiest
part, but depending on how fine-tuned access can be implemented on MediaWiki
the whole thing may need hidden from all but users granted access - in which
case who cares if it is really pretty. [Yes, this is for the embargoed
wiki.]

 

On which note, who has installed/run MediaWiki?

 

 

Brian McNeil

 

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[mailto:wikinews-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Terin Stock
Sent: 17 May 2009 15:03
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Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Non Profit Website Design: Examples and
BestPractices

 

Since I did the first incarnation of wikinewsie, I don't mind doing the
second.

#Terin

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org>
wrote:

Anyone interested in poking about and applying this to Wikinewsie.org?

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/14/non-profit-website-design-example
<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/14/non-profit-website-design-exampl
e%0As-and-best-practices/> 
s-and-best-practices/



Brian McNeil


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