.gif)
St. Thomas IEEE and St. Thomas SWE website... on that IEEE server...!
As some people took time to relax and have a good Thanksgiving Holiday break, I've been getting the St. Thomas IEEE and St. Thomas SWE websites up. St. Thomas IEEE is otherwise known as the Electrical Engineering Club and St. Thomas SWE is our Society of Women Engineers branch.
Check out the two sites at:
http://ieee.stthomas.edu/
http://swe.stthomas.edu/
For the IEEE site, I used CMS Made Simple and for the SWE site I used Wordpress.
I was really gunning to use Textpattern, but I wanted an excuse to use a larger scale content management system (not that Textpattern wouldn't be able to handle it). Drupal and Joomla ... just too big and clunky for my tastes right now.
There's still a lot of stylizing left to do for the websites, but I'm more of a functionality guy (really, who cares if a site looks pretty if it doesn't have good information?) so I've been more worried about getting the back-end and site configured first. I'm not too interested in coming with up a CSS design from scratch, and I still have mixed feelings about fixed-width templates... well, at least it being fixed width I don't run into long lines of text (see THIS SITE. I can live with it, and for people with really low monitor resolutions will just have to deal with it...
As far as I can tell, at least the home pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional; the IEEE site has some issues with CSS that I haven't had time to look at, but the SWE one checks out (albeit both have warnings and such).
Both sites look really good Lue
Both sites look really good Lue. It actually takes a lot of effort to get functional websites like that off the ground. It's easy to throw up a simple HTML site or other junk on the web, but getting a functional CMS up and running that people want to use is another thing.
Kudos! They look good.
Very nice
Very nice. You do have a talent for taking blogs and such and making them into engineering sites.
Plone
Hmm, I just got rid of both the CMS Made Simple and Textpattern sites and have installed... Plone!.
See it at the St. Thomas IEEE Website.
Now all that's left is learning an entirely new system... Zope, Python, and Plone. And then trying to skin this sucker.
The only thing that stinks is that Plone version 3 kinda has lackluster documentation/Products(i.e. Plugins) right now compared to version 2.5 and below--being that version 3 is relatively new...!
Back to Textpattern
Well, I'm making my way back to Textpattern...!
I even dabbled in MODx... until I was annoyed by the amount of circling you had to do to get news/blog-styled postings up...
Look at the current site here: IEEE Website.
== update ==
Except now there's a really weird caching issue...
== UPDATE UPDATE ==
Except it's not a cache issue it's a stupid mod_rewrite issue with clean urls. Ack!
Drupal...
Hmm, the more and more I look at Drupal the more I want to give it an honest try...!
Drupal indeed
Well, as the Textpattern site sits at this URL, I've begun testing out Drupal on the main site. We'll see how it goes. We'll see how the IEEE Website stacks up against this CS Club website here!
Clean URLs for Drupal
Ack, had to do this:
Instead of:
AllowOverride FileInfoI had to use this:
AllowOverride AllHere's the documentation on AllowOverride.
Basics of the Drupal site complete
Well, I got the basic functions of the St. Thomas IEEE site done. ieee.stthomas.edu.
Created custom content type for members. Used a slew of modules). Maybe I'll make the site prettier if I have time (like make a better logo).