Northwest Hockey Sports Camp
April 11, 2007
I recently helped redesign a website for a family owned Hockey Sports Camp. Some of the objectives are:
- Easy to maintain
- Easy to navigate
- Not much in the budget, it so must be up and running very quickly.
The old site is still here.
To achieve these goals I decided to use a content management system. With my prior experience using DotNetNuke, right away I was leaning in that direction. But the host that the old site is on was not MS based, so I had to look for other alternatives. After some quick research the two open source system that won me over was Joomla! and Drupal.
I installed the two system and played around with them little bit. I didn’t have too much time to go into either of them very deeply, in the end I chose Joomla. The ease of the administration screens won me over. In my opinion it is much more friendlier than Drupal’s.
Here is the new site: Northwest Hockey Sports Camp
It’s simple, not overly flashy and I’m not too fond of the colour scheme, but the clients are loving it. I handed over the controls and they are able to run with it after very little training. I charged them 18 hours worth of billable work. I didn’t include any of the setup and research effort because the geek in me knows I was having too much fun for it to be “work”.
I haven’t given up on Drupal though… my next “experiment” will definitely include Drupal in some form.
April 12, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Drupal (and, I assume, Joomla!) has its uses, but to have something more .NET-like for Linux, similar to DotNetNuke, would be nice. I wish that DotNetNuke would support the Mono Project so that it could be used with hosts that are not MS based.
By the way, the colour scheme reminds me a bit of the Minnesota Vikings.
April 24, 2007 at 9:07 am
thanks for the craiglist page blog!
cristian, from argentina