Factors to Consider When Choosing Accounts Payable Services Providers.pptx
Experiences of CMS Selection
1. Experiences of CMS Selection
Christopher Borkowski
Lead Developer – Balboa Park Online Collaborative
Thursday November 17, 2011
MCN Conference
Atlanta, Ga.
2. 71.5% of websites use a CMS.
In use / Market Share
Wordpress - 15% / 53 %
Joomla! - 2.9 % /9.5 %
Drupal - 1.8 % / 6.4 %
http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all
3. Get something that is easy to use,
powerful, and something your staff
likes
Who should be involved in the selection process:
1) Web Developers
2) IT Staff
3) Editorial/Web Master/Editor
4) Graphic/Design/Photography
5) Marketing/PR
6) Membership/Visitor Services
7) Curatorial
8) Library
4. Joomla! vs. Drupal – Two Examples
Joomla 1.5 Drupal 6.19
http://guggenheim.org http://balboapark.org
5. Joomla! vs. Drupal – Two Examples
Joomla 1.5 Drupal 6.19
http://guggenheim.org http://balboapark.org
Site Design : Pentagram Site Design : Baily Gardner
Development Team (20) – ID Society, Development Team (3) – BPOC – Bill
SRGM, Discouri Desing, Ex Corp Bostick, CB, Linda West
2 year implementation/roll out & on 3.5 month implementation/roll out &
going on going
Hosting: Rackspace VMWare & SRGM Hosting: ASW Amazon /S3
LAMP – RHEL 5/ Cent OS /Win2k LAMP – Fedora 14
Google Mini Appliance
Apache SOLR Search Server
SVN version contoll
SVN Version Controll
1 Staging & 4 sandboxes
1 staging (cal) 3 sandboxes
6. Joomla! vs. Drupal – Two Examples
Joomla 1.5 Drupal 6.19
http://guggenheim.org http://balboapark.org
Reason for selection – Key Selling points
• Selection by committee – Best Unilateral – Other
RFP – IT dept recomendations Organizations - Service
• Past Experience & Success. Software – Babble, CCK &
• Elegant – MVC (Model, View Views
Control – design patter) Rapid Development
• Robust Software & Community Efficient and Small platform
• Stable Platform
7. Joomla! vs. Drupal – Two Examples
Joomla 1.5 Drupal 6.19
http://guggenheim.org http://balboapark.org
Major Features
• TMS / E-museum – Presentation BP CAL – aggregated master
Layer Component. calendar module -
• EAD Finding Aids Presentation Apache SOLR – faceted search
Component. OpenX add server
• Call Out Component
RSS feed – agregated content
• Sketchup / Design it Component
to Iphone App & Kisoks
• Ez-Video Gallery Component
• Arts Curriculum Component