How to best build high school alumni website
December 21, 2005 3:58 PM Subscribe
AlumniSiteFilter: I run the alumni site for my high school, and I'd like to put it on a decent back-end (its currently manually updated). Feature list and embarrassing photos inside!
I'd like a simple CMS tool so that people can go to a page and enter their info including name, class of, what they're doing now, contact information, a url link to an image, etc, and then the program would generate pages for each graduating class.
If its absolutely necessary, i could receive the submissions via email and then add them.
I've been thinking about a movabletype installation with a custom fields plugin but that doesnt seem to allow for user intervention outside of me...
Theres gotta be a package to be able to do this, or some scripts or something...classmates.com sucks!
A little background: 7 years web design experience...very basic javascript/flash...not enough to build my own app...
I'd like a simple CMS tool so that people can go to a page and enter their info including name, class of, what they're doing now, contact information, a url link to an image, etc, and then the program would generate pages for each graduating class.
If its absolutely necessary, i could receive the submissions via email and then add them.
I've been thinking about a movabletype installation with a custom fields plugin but that doesnt seem to allow for user intervention outside of me...
Theres gotta be a package to be able to do this, or some scripts or something...classmates.com sucks!
A little background: 7 years web design experience...very basic javascript/flash...not enough to build my own app...
Response by poster: well i'd like it to be more of a listing-with-photo, kinda like match.com, rather than an art gallery... also i imagine it would have some kind of database back-end that would allow for searches for, say, everyone who graduated between 97 and 99.
The current site looks like this [self-link]. I'd basically like something equivalent but with an actual back-end running it.
Is this something the aforementioned titles can do?
posted by softlord at 4:16 PM on December 21, 2005
The current site looks like this [self-link]. I'd basically like something equivalent but with an actual back-end running it.
Is this something the aforementioned titles can do?
posted by softlord at 4:16 PM on December 21, 2005
Take a look at ExpressionEngine from pMachine. Although at first glance it looks like a blogging tool, it's quite powerful because of the amount of customization you can do. I use EE as the backend for my portfolio site and it works really well. There is also a discussion forum module as well as a photo gallery module.
posted by lunarboy at 5:23 PM on December 21, 2005
posted by lunarboy at 5:23 PM on December 21, 2005
No need to reinvent the wheel, take a look at phpAlumni. I've used it (as an alum, not admin) and it seems to work just fine. Use Google to find myriad implementations.
P.S. I have no idea why the phpAlumni site is down.
posted by Mike C. at 9:32 PM on December 21, 2005
P.S. I have no idea why the phpAlumni site is down.
posted by Mike C. at 9:32 PM on December 21, 2005
I have no idea why the phpAlumni site is down.
Not exactly a good selling point. ;)
posted by lunarboy at 9:20 AM on December 22, 2005
Not exactly a good selling point. ;)
posted by lunarboy at 9:20 AM on December 22, 2005
Response by poster: I found an alternate download location (sourceforge) and will check it out. Thanks, Mike!
posted by softlord at 9:25 AM on December 22, 2005
posted by softlord at 9:25 AM on December 22, 2005
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posted by spacewrench at 4:05 PM on December 21, 2005