A comparision, explanation and tour of the two best CMS apps to make your school [or any] website explode

1. Wordpress and Joomla
CMS rocks [your pants right off]

2. Me
Tim Welch
ETF
Sanford Middle School
Seminole County Public Schools

3. What is CMS? Content Management System

4. Input & Output

5. Input & Output
Database+Template+Code=HTML

6. Input & Output
Database+Template+Code=HTML
MySql+(PHPxJava)+CSS=HTML+XML

7. A Little History why we need new stuff

8. HTML

9. HTML
Boring

10. HTML
Boring
Long

11. HTML
Boring
Long
Ugly

12. HTML
Boring
Long
Ugly
Boring

13. http://thebiguglywebsite.com/

14. HTML + CSS

15. HTML + CSS
Easier

16. HTML + CSS
Easier
but still boring
and ugly

17. Other Negatives to Pure HTML

18. Other Negatives to Pure HTML
Hand Coding

19. Other Negatives to Pure HTML
Hand Coding
Frontpage

20. Other Negatives to Pure HTML
Hand Coding
Frontpage
Dreamweaver

21. CMS Gives You
Automated Templates
Scalable Expansion
Easily Editable Content
Scalable Feature Sets
Web Standard Upgrades
Workflow Management
Delegation
Document Management
Content virtualization
Content Syndication
Multilingual
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content_management_system

22. CMS Gives You
Automated Templates
Scalable Expansion
Easily Editable Content
Scalable Feature Sets
Web Standard Upgrades
Workflow Management
Delegation
Document Management
Content virtualization
Content Syndication
Multilingual
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content_management_system

23. CMS Gives You
Automated Templates
Scalable Expansion
Easily Editable Content
Scalable Feature Sets
Web Standard Upgrades
Workflow Management
Delegation
Document Management
Content virtualization
Content Syndication
Multilingual
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content_management_system

24. CMS Gives You
Automated Templates
Scalable Expansion
Easily Editable Content
Scalable Feature Sets
Web Standard Upgrades
Workflow Management
Delegation
Document Management
Content virtualization
Content Syndication
Multilingual
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content_management_system

25. CMS Gives You
Automated Templates
Scalable Expansion
Easily Editable Content
Scalable Feature Sets
Web Standard Upgrades
Workflow Management
Delegation
Document Management
Content virtualization
Content Syndication [RSS]
Multilingual
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content_management_system

26. The Real Benefits Of CMS

27. The Real Benefits Of CMS
Free as in beer

28. The Real Benefits Of CMS
Free as in beer
Widely used [and abused]

29. The Real Benefits Of CMS
Free as in beer
Widely used [and abused]
Gotta work hard to screw it up

30. Open Source

31. Open Source
Source code is published and
made available to the public

32. Open Source
Source code is published and
made available to the public
Community developed

33. Open Source
Source code is published and
made available to the public
Community developed
Community vetted

34. Open Source
Source code is published and
made available to the public
Community developed
Community vetted
Community supported by
premium services

35. Open Source
Source code is published and
made available to the public
Community developed
Community vetted
Community supported by
premium services
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

36. Open Source
Source code is published and
made available to the public
Community developed
Community vetted
Widely used [and abused]
Community supported by
premium services
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

37. Issues

38. Issues
Support

39. Issues
Support
Maintenance

40. Issues
Support
Maintenance
Spam

41. Joomla.org

42. Joomla.org
More traditional look
and feel

43. Joomla.org
More traditional look
and feel
Template and Plugin

44. Joomla.org
More traditional look
and feel
Template and Plugin
Complicated structures

45. Joomla.org
More traditional look
and feel
Template and Plugin
Complicated structures
Slow and steady
development cycle

46. Joomla.org
More traditional look
and feel
Template and Plugin
Complicated structures
Slow and steady
development cycle
Big bespoke community

47. Wordpress.org

48. Wordpress.org
Basic blog

49. Wordpress.org
Basic blog
Templates and plugins

50. Wordpress.org
Basic blog
Templates and plugins
Simple but fast

51. Wordpress.org
Basic blog
Templates and plugins
Simple but fast
Multisite capable

52. Wordpress.org
Basic blog
Templates and plugins
Simple but fast
Multisite capable
Frequent development

53. Wordpress.org
Basic blog
Templates and plugins
Simple but fast
Multisite capable
Frequent development
Wide community

54. Easy Comparison Of The Two

55. Easy Comparison Of The Two
Structure Plugins Media Multisite Admin Security Updates
Wordpress simple easy got it builtin easy great frequent
Joomla complicated difficult got it nope moderate so so slow

56. Easy Comparison Of The Two
Structure Plugins Media Multisite Admin Security Updates
Wordpress simple easy got it builtin easy great frequent
Joomla complicated difficult got it nope moderate so so slow

57. Easy Comparison Of The Two
Structure Plugins Media Multisite Admin Security Updates
Wordpress simple easy got it builtin easy great frequent
Joomla complicated difficult got it nope moderate so so slow

58. Easy Comparison Of The Two
Structure Plugins Media Multisite Admin Security Updates
Wordpress simple easy got it builtin easy great frequent
Joomla complicated difficult got it nope moderate so so slow

59. Easy Comparison Of The Two
Structure Plugins Media Multisite Admin Security Updates
Wordpress simple easy got it builtin easy great frequent
Joomla complicated difficult got it nope moderate so so slow

60. Easy Comparison Of The Two
Structure Plugins Media Multisite Admin Security Updates
Wordpress simple easy got it builtin easy great frequent
Joomla complicated difficult got it nope moderate so so slow

61. Easy Comparison Of The Two
Structure Plugins Media Multisite Admin Security Updates
Wordpress simple easy got it builtin easy great frequent
Joomla complicated difficult got it nope moderate so so slow

62. Easy Comparison Of The Two
Structure Plugins Media Multisite Admin Security Updates
Wordpress simple easy got it builtin easy great frequent
Joomla complicated difficult got it nope moderate so so slow

63. Now, to make them work...

64. Webserver

65. Webserver
All the technical doodads from IS/IT

66. Webserver
All the technical doodads from IS/IT
IIS [windows server]

67. Webserver
All the technical doodads from IS/IT
IIS [windows server]
WAMP / MAMP [/LAMP]

68. MAMP / WAMP

69. MAMP / WAMP
Mac OS X / Windows

70. MAMP / WAMP
Mac OS X / Windows
Apache

71. MAMP / WAMP
Mac OS X / Windows
Apache
MySql

72. MAMP / WAMP
Mac OS X / Windows
Apache
MySql
PHP, Python, Perl

73. Where to Get It All

74. Where to Get It All
wordpress.org
beware the .com
joomla.org
http://www.mamp.info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_WAMPs

75. Other Alternatives

76. Other Alternatives
Teachercenter, Renweb, etc

77. Other Alternatives
Teachercenter, Renweb, etc
Moodle

78. Other Alternatives
Teachercenter, Renweb, etc
Moodle
CMS Made Simple [just won best open source cms]

79. Other Alternatives
Teachercenter, Renweb, etc
Moodle
CMS Made Simple [just won best open source cms]
CushyCMS

80. Other Alternatives
Teachercenter, Renweb, etc
Moodle
CMS Made Simple [just won best open source cms]
CushyCMS
Drupal [popsci.com]

81. Excellent Comparison of CMS
theopensourcery.com [ http://bit.ly/hNJBIH ]

82. wordcamporlando
wordcamporlando.org

83. Photo Credits
Open source http://www.flickr.com/photos/grokcode/
CSS http://www.flickr.com/photos/s4xton/
HTML http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniello/
CMS http://www.flickr.com/photos/eogez/
History apple.com

84. Tours