content management systems

A program installed on a server used to manage the content of a web site from a personal computer. A content management system enables authorised contributors to add content to the site using an interface that has been integrated into the website. There are many content management systems to choose from. See "Wikipedia":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems for more information.

Web projects

GreenNet web projects are all about planning, designing, building and hosting websites that work for you and the issues you’re working on.

Web based services

Links to web based systems for administering databases (phpMyAdmin), ActionApps, mailing lists (mailman), and web based email (squirrelmail, horde).

Updating your website

These instructions will explain how to work out what sort of website you have, and what software and settings you’ll need to make changes to your site.

Web projects with Drupal

GreenNet’s current CMS of choice is Drupal. It is an open source system for developing websites and publishing content to them. A Drupal website has at its heart a database of the site’s content (articles, reports, profiles, events etc..). The system serves content from the database to the right pages of the site in the appropriate style, as they are called for by site users. Site authors can add, modify and manage their content in that database using simple private online forms.

Web projects with ActionApps

ActionApps is a content management system (CMS) that made it possible for GreenNet to offer low-cost database driven websites which focused on maximising attention to content and minimised the effort needed to get it online. It was GreenNet’s first CMS, developed in 2000 by a group of techies from the APC network, and designed to meet the needs of civil society organisations wanting a dynamic presence on the web.

Blast off!

30 April 2008 - 8:33pm — Anna (GreenNet)

I told my kids today that we were about to launch the GreenNet website and they asked me if we’d be using a rocket or a space ship. In the event it was a bit less dramatic than that. Mimo typed in some commands on the server, and I went out for a cup of tea with Liz and Hattie.
Well there was a bit more to it than that…