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David, Thanks so much to you and to MamboSchools for releasing this component. I have admired MamboSchools for quite awhile. Our district, for several reasons, decided to roll our own rather than use MamboSchools, but you guys have a great product. Thanks again, and as you consider upgrades/modifica...

After reading most of the posts in this section, I thought it would be fun (and hopefully useful) to get a discussion going on a common decision that most of us seem to be dealing with. Paducah Public Schools is in the process of designing and creating our new website for the district. We want to ha...

Wow! Thanks, mcsmom. After reading your post, I checked your school's site, wow again. I'm going to install CB and start playing with it. Your site and what you have described is exactly what I would like to do for our Paducah school's community.  I'm a relative newbie to Joomla, do you mind if...

jared,
Some excellent points. I'd love to involve a consultant but the district is cutting $1M out of the budget and my resources for new website development are nil. I sure appreciate the input, though.

Thanks
Jeff Nelson
Paducah Public Schools

bjraines, I'm looking at several components to make our site both easy to use for our teachers and useful for our parents. I was tempted by a good looking commercial product, mamboSchools by oneTechnologies (m). Not unreasonably priced, but we just don't want to go to a fully hosted model. For schoo...

Thanks, Barrie. Actually, that was a model I was thinking of. However, being that we are a small district (less than 3000 students and only 6 schools) and that I'm a relative newbie to Joomla , I think I'll keep it simple at this time. I will take a look at Multisite when I have some time. For our C...

firefly, I got UHP installed and it looks like it will do just what I need. It also appears that the new version will have some neat additional functionality. By the way, the only thing I would like to do differently is to display (from a menu probably) a subset of the user list (e.g. just the teach...

Thanks, guys, a couple of good ideas for me to futz around with. Anyone else?

Jeff Nelson
Paducah, KY

I am technology director for a school district in Kentucky. The district's current website (w) is running on an (old) proprietary CMS system running on Microsoft IIS. This summer we are going to move to Joomla running on Apache. We are going to take the opportunity of the move to do a complete redes...