Actinic for Schools???

[Darren B]

Oooh i was just starting to have a play with it here

https://128bit-secured.co.uk/joomla/

[acompton]

I don't know why you'd even consider Actinic for this.

Well said. This is what I was trying to point out back in post #3

[Rich Brady]

I don't know why you'd even consider Actinic for this.

I've used Joomla to design several sites...

1) It's free
2) Students can assign their own accounts and access privileges (publisher, editor, author etc)
3) Once it's installed (the hardest part) it's really easy to maintain publish and create new content and pages.

This is an Actinic forum and I'm 100% behind it as an e-commerce product, but to try and taylor it for a standalone CMS website it absurd.

I didn't design this site a friend with very little technical knowledge did, but it is similar in scope to a school website.

I'll have a look at that thanks.

[Darren B]

I don't know why you'd even consider Actinic for this.

To be honest actinic is very good as a CMS for ease of use and usability, i have done in the past and so have many others.

Alot of CMS packages require SQL, alot of schools dont have this facility

As always the big difference with Actinic is "OFFLINE" Ability & "PORTABILITY"

So the requirement is more down to what the school want to do with it. Actinic has its limitations but what do they want and can they servers support it.

[RuralWeb]

Actinic is a very good cms sytem but it would be the totally wrong product to use for a school. I've done a few school sites and generally what they want is for each class to have thief own pages with access from the of in that classroom. Also it's almost certain they will not want to allow in checked content to be publish so a system where pages can be sent for review and authorization is also required

On both of the above actinic fails and so I would not use it.