Seneca Open Source Symposium PostNuke Content Management System David Rosenboom

PostNuke Content Management System (CMS) What is PostNuke? – an open source solution for website content management – written in PHP and uses MySQL database – contains administration screens for website administrators to manage web content, users, etc.

PostNuke Content Management System (CMS) Advantages – cost (free Open Source solution) – simple and quick to set up a portal style website – large community of users and developers using PostNuke. – large community to help with support. – large number of modules that can be added on at any time. – bugs are found and fixed quickly. – multilanguage support

PostNuke Content Management System (CMS) Disadvantages – scalibilty and performance may not be as good as some commercial solutions – any changes to the source code that you make will make upgrading to newer releases difficult – may not be easy to use with other databases such as Oracle or DB2

PostNuke Content Management System (CMS) What administrators can do with PostNuke? – articles/stories can be organized by any topic/category. – add/edit/delete stories/articles – able to change the entire look and feel of the site by selecting themes. – can specify user groups and assign permissions to give individuals access levels – can send out an to all users or individual users – banner ads administration – can create online polls or surveys – full control over all blocks and modules. You can create a block linking to an RSS newsfeed.

PostNuke Content Management System (CMS) What web users can do with PostNuke? – create and account to access sections only available to registered users – comment on articles/stories, etc. – set the theme that they prefer – submit news which requires admin approval before going live

PostNuke Content Management System (CMS) Links – – sites using postnuke – WYSIWYG – text formatting of textarea formfield – – performance optimizations tips –