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H13, Thanks for the comments.... I'm not sure about you, but I like your dogs...  :-) I struggled with size issues a lot. This is a complex site and the school has many different departments. I did NOT want a side menu because lots of users find them confusing, and they take up space. Here, you...

I'm working with an International School here in Tunisia, North Africa.  The existing site was drab and static (see acst.net) We're about to go live with this site: m This is Joomla 1.0.12 with ExtCal for the customized events calendars you see, AjaxRotator for the Top Slide Show(s), and simple...

You can do this with the MyContent component. m MyContent works well for me for this.  I have a menu item under "Staff" that is hidden unless a Staff member (author = special) logs in. Then they see a menu item "Add Content to Site". Lunch Menu: ExtCal2 works great for me (Thanks for showing m...

I WISH there was such an FAQ. Joomla is a Content Management System.  Read the list of FAQ's and there is none on CONTENT or Content Management. I need to define a strategy for managing content, and content creators: - Decide what the content structure (Section-Category-Content) is for your app...

Slord, Merci' beau coup for the insights. (I'm across the Med in French/Arabic Tunisia..) Wish my French was as good as your English! I am a firm believer in prototyping any large system and then letting beta users embarrass the developers. I once quit a large project at IBM when they canceled the p...

About size of site: I'm working on the design of a new K-12 site and although there is a lot of content and a lot of menu items I think it's very workable.  I have, um... about 60 menu items. Take a look at: m to see the menu (nothing else is up there yet, and I'm still trying to fix the drop-d...

cherchri, Your English Ain't Broke: Don't Fix it!!!  Viele Dank!

This is a great explanation, and particularly appropriate to the people I need to explain it to!

Thanks for taking the time to put that together.  I'll be in touch when I want to use that on an Education site...

Please do not crosspost, see the Forum rules: m I deleted the other post.... [/quote] OK, Peter. Still there ARE occasions where something has a wider scope; thus the Usenet methods of 'cross-posting without using extra space'... I will not cross-post again... I will not cross-post again... ... Than...

I'm working on helping schools understand how to use Joomla and WHY. Can anyone point to a well-done explanation of the differences between a CMS and a Page Design system?? Maybe even a table of differences?? Hmmmm... ...It sure wasn't clear to me in the beginning :-) PS: This is cross-posted; can a...

Dear Steve,  I see you have the two things exemplary students have: - Does Homework! - Persistent when something is not understood! Your Lunch menu is something I NEED badly!  After several meetings and review of the last school survey the #1 problem is knowing the Lunch Menu in an easy an...

Dear Eric, You're way ahead of me and I hope you can help with a little perspective: - I understand the basic Joomla installation; just got it running. - What browsers do you use for Admin and users?? - Questions about the school environment:   - Does you school mix MAC and PC?  What issue...