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by jthorstad
Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:56 pm
Forum: Schools and Universities
Topic: Dynamic Lunch Menu
Replies: 21
Views: 22670

Re: Dynamic Lunch Menu

As a follow-up... I also ended up purchasing Thyme, for dynamic lunch menus, but also for some other benefits. I was able to create a nice scrolling weekly lunch menu and place it in a Module on the home page. People really seem to like that! m I also decided on Thyme because of it's ability to rece...
by jthorstad
Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:48 am
Forum: Schools and Universities
Topic: Paper-Less Homework Component
Replies: 4
Views: 4717

Re: Paper-Less Homework Component

Honestly, I'd say...use Moodle! It can do everything you mentioned!

Maybe not what you want to hear... 8)

Jesse
by jthorstad
Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:57 pm
Forum: Schools and Universities
Topic: Advice needed
Replies: 9
Views: 6223

Re: Advice needed

Steve, Interesting info. Thanks for that. I do run a few Moodle sites, and considered using Moodle as our main CMS, but feel that Joomla has a more polished look and feel. I haven't thought much of using the wrapper. That would be very useful for including legacy static pages, as long as they're re-...
by jthorstad
Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:01 pm
Forum: Schools and Universities
Topic: Advice needed
Replies: 9
Views: 6223

Advice needed

Greetings! I've been given the fun job of redesigning our K-12 district's website. It's currently just a collection of static pages, and I definitely want to go with a CMS. I've decided on Joomla. I've got a test install running, and have had great fun tweaking the theme to our colors and so on. Now...
by jthorstad
Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:26 pm
Forum: Schools and Universities
Topic: Dynamic Lunch Menu
Replies: 21
Views: 22670

Re: Dynamic Lunch Menu

Steve, You have a beautiful site. It's something to aspire to! Congrats! Is that a roll-your-own theme? Or is it a regular theme that you customized? It has the layout I really would like to see for our site. Also, how did you implement the "popular tags"-style block on the left of the page? (Not su...