Joomla CMS : Joomla CMS From www.joomla.org:
“Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.”
Who uses joomla? : Who uses joomla? Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes, including:
Small business Web sites
Non-profit and organizational Web sites
School and church Web sites etc…
Many examples on the joomla website.
Functionality : Functionality 1000’s of free templates
Over 3000 free extensions to enhance functionality and capability
Well supported forums
User log on facility to provide secure areas if required.
Article archiving functionality, publishing start and end dates.
Inbuilt search facility.
And so much more ...
Current host: Netspace : Current host: Netspace Current host possibly $191 per annum (to be confirmed) for STATIC website hosting and 125 MB of disc space with their BRONZE package.
We would require minimum of SILVER package for 250MB of disc space at $29.95 per month with $59.95 for initial set up. This will allow ability to manage our own content, with mySql and Joomla.
Also allows multiple databases. This means Moodle could run as well for the same cost.
Hosting Costs with Jumba : Hosting Costs with Jumba Jumba range of Australian Small Business plans.
Need to find out if these apply to a school website ?
Costing needs to be looked into by IT staff.
Jumba website hosting : Jumba website hosting Jumba small business web site hosting specifics
Moodle Softwarewww.moodle.org : Moodle Softwarewww.moodle.org From the Moodle website: “Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students.”
Currently there are 45741 sites from 199 countries who have registered, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
Australian International School Singapore (offers IB) uses moodle see: http://moodle.ais.com.sg/moodle/
Refer to above site to see moodle in action.
There is currently a moodle/Joomla bridge just developed.