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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hey Abhishek,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>If you’re at all interested in developing templates for WP, I’d
suggest the screencast series over at <a href="http://css-tricks.com">http://css-tricks.com</a>
– starting at screencast #25<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>As far as the platform, I’d say it depends on how much content
and how you’re going to use it. Joomla! As a CMS is best suited for e-commerce
sort of things. But if you’re going to have a LOT of content, it might be a
good route to go. Drupal is different in that it’s more focused on community –
user profiles, forums, discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I personally think that WP does a much better job at connect
people and letting them easily comment. Designing for WordPress really isn’t
very hard and the platform is so extensible and quick that if you’re looking at
say, 15 pages or so, it will work great. I use WP for a music festival our
college holds each year and it’s definitely not a blog: <a
href="http://www.agapefest.com">http://www.agapefest.com</a> but that will give
you some idea of how you can use child/parent Pages as well as dynamic content
in the form of news.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hope that helps, and if you have any specific questions, I’d be
glad to help you out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Joel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Joel Goodman<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Web Content Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Greenville College<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>315 E College Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Greenville, IL 62246<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>TEL/</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>618.664.6515<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>WEB</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>/<a href="http://www.greenville.edu/">www.greenville.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>EMAIL/</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:joel.goodman@greenville.edu">joel.goodman@greenville.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Futuristic
</span></b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>●</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> Strategic </span></b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>●</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> Responsibility </span></b><span
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color:#1F497D'>●</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> Competition<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com
[mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Abhishek<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 30, 2009 6:59 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> wp-edu@lists.automattic.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [wp-edu] Advice needed on using WP for ALL of the website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I'm soon going to start working on a project to remake our
business school's website. Having done a lot of stuff with Wordpress in the
past I would like to stick to using WP. However, I'm not a theme developer and
can make only minor changes to existing themes, which is what I've been doing
so far.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>My business schools (Indian Institute of Management,
Calcutta) is one of the top ranked B schools in India and hence the site needs
to be spot on, on the first try. Also there might be some scope for outsourcing
the template design. However all of the WP activity in education I've been
seeing is in the blogs space, and I'm wondering if I should explore some other
options (like Drupal, Joomla) for the design of the actual site. I'm pretty
confused in this regard.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>What steps should I follow? Any advice in this regard would
be great!<o:p></o:p></p>
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Cheers,<br>
Abhishek<br>
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IIM Calcutta PGP I Student,<br>
Tagore Hostel, D-202.<br>
+91 9890726322<o:p></o:p></p>
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