[Athen] Accessible CMS top picks

[Greg Kraus]

I like both Drupal and WordPress. Drupal is good if you have coders to
help you set it up and customize it. WordPress is definitely more user
friendly, especially if you aren't a hard-core coder. However, even
some of our coders prefer WordPress over Drupal.

In the end, it depends on what ultimately you want to do with a site
that determines if you use WordPress or Drupal. The more like a set of
static Web pages you want it, the more I'd lean towards WordPress. If
you want more functionality, like interacting with a database, I'd
lean more towards Drupal. For us it's not an either/or situation. It's
finding the best tool for the job, so we end up using both in
different circumstances.

I hope this helps.

Greg


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Prickett, Elizabeth
<Elizabeth.Prickett at victoriacollege.edu> wrote:

> Good morning!

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> Our college is looking for options to replace our ancient Joomla website. Do

> any of you have a CMS (commercial or open source) that you've fallen in love

> with for accessibility, usability and responsiveness? We'd like to find a

> solution on which we can fairly easily train our content managers, too.

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> I'm looking for examples from different institutions that have used various

> CMSs. I've found a few examples so far who are using Cascade Server,

> OmniUpdate, Drupal and WordPress. If anyone has a page/site they are

> particularly proud of, I'd love to know!

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> I've also been searching to see if there is any sort of comparison chart for

> CMSs, but the only ones I've been finding are from several years ago.

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> Thanks for any information or testimonials you may have!

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> Have a wonderful weekend,

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> Liz Prickett

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> Alternative Media Specialist

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> Center for Academic & Professional Excellence (CAPE)

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> Victoria College

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