WAT:Create A Project Website

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Webmaster Apprenticeship Training

How to create a project website
Tools

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So you're a webmaster for a website that doesn't exist and your first task is to create it? There are several options of getting this done within the MPDL infrastructure.

Wordpress μ Blog[edit]

Wordpress isn't only a blogging software. It can easily serve as CMS.

The Good[edit]

  • relatively easy to change the layout, in particular because there are lots of themes to choose from.
  • something like a "news" section is pretty much built-in - it's a blog after all.


The Bad[edit]

  • when it comes to support for collaboration


And The Ugly[edit]

Colab Portal[edit]

TODO


Trac instance + Subversion repos[edit]

https://dev.livingreviews.org/projects/

The Good[edit]

  • very good support for collaboration.


The Bad[edit]

  • relatively hard to change the layout.


And The Ugly[edit]

  • Served via HTTPS using a root certificate which isn't pre-installed in most browsers. Thus, not the first choice for public facing websites.