And, OK, if youre going to use one, which one???

Mark Branom, IT Services

 Wiktionary

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/content_management_system

Definition:

A computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of documents and other content, especially for loading to a website

COMPLETE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Drupal Joomla! BLOGS Wordpress Movable Type Blogger WIKIS MediaWiki Confluence pmwiki

 Option Option

1: Do-It-Yourself
2: Use the Installer!

Create database Go to drupal.org Download application Un-archive file Rename directory Delete the file Check and set server permissions Visit the install page

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Options -Indexes Options +FollowSymLinks PHP 5, Apache 2. php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0 php_value registrar_globals 0 php_value session.auto_start 0 php_value mbstring.http_input pass php_value mbstring.http_output pass php_value mbstring.encoding_translation 0

choose language 2. rename settings.php 3. enter database name, username, password 4. enter 127.0.0.1 as the MySQL host to use stunnel 5. name your site 6. choose admin username 7. enter admin email address 8. choose admin password 9. visit the site 10. test clean URLs Settings 11. modify the RewriteBase in .htaccess
1.

12. enable

clean URLs 13. set the temporary directory to an AFS path 14. set file handling to public 15. create a modules directory under sites/all 16. find the latest WebAuth module 17. download the module 18. unarchive and rename 19. configure the module and then enable it 20. clean up 21. download the latest Views module 22. unarchive the View

module 23. rename the directory 24. clean up 25. download the latest Content Construction Kit Module 26. unarchive the module 27. rename the directory 28. enable the module 29. clean up 30. download the latest Admin Menu module 31. unarchive the module 32. rename the directory 33. clean up 34. visit IT Services web design resources 35. download the Stanford Drupal

Theme 36. create a themes directory under sites/all 37. download the latest theme 38. visit the themes admin page and enable the theme 39. visit techcommons 40. search for Reverse Proxy 41. download the module 42. unarchive 43. rename the directory 44. clean up

Collaborative Book Friendly URLs Modules Online Help Open Source Personalization Role based permissions system Searching User Authentication Polls Templating Threaded Comments Version Control Blogger API Support Content Syndication

News aggregator Permalinks Apache or IIS Unix/Linux/BSD/Solaris/ Windows/Mac OS X Support Database Independence Multi-Language Analysis, Tracking and Statistics Logging and Reporting Web based administration Discussion forums Caching Blogs

 Popular blogging tool Basic Content Management

System Simpler to use, configure, and edit than Drupal, but not as powerful Also free and open source

 http://tools.stanford.edu

 Popular wiki tool Basic Content Management

System Simpler to use, configure, and edit than Drupal or WordPress, but not as powerful Also free and open source

 http://tools.stanford.edu

 Stanford Tech Commons: http://techcommons.stanford.edu

Infrastructure Tools: http://tools.stanford.edu University Web Resources: http://web.stanford.edu

 Official Drupal Site:

http://www.drupal.org

Stanford Drupal Resources:

http://drupal.stanford.edu

Drupal Web Framework at Stanford:

http://itservices.stanford.edu/service/web/drupal

Drupal in Practice:

http://drip.stanford.edu

Drupal Service Details:

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/its/communications/webservices/wiki/ index.php/Drupal_Service_Details

Drupal Email List:

https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/drupallers

 Official WordPress Site:

http://www.wordpress.org/

WordPress Web Framework at Stanford:

https://itservices.stanford.edu/service/web/wordpress

WordPress Service Details:

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/its/communications/webs ervices/wiki/index.php/WordPress_Service_Details

WordPress Email List:

https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/wordpres s-users

 Official MediaWiki Site:

http://www.mediawiki.org/

MediaWiki Web Framework at Stanford:

https://itservices.stanford.edu/service/web/mediawiki

MediaWiki Service Details:

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/its/communications/webs ervices/wiki/index.php/MediaWiki_Service_Details

MediaWiki Email List:

https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/mediawik i-users