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A great way to keep in touch with classmate from your old elementary, junior high or high school is by setting up a website, which will carry information about the people, places and things you remember fondly, or not so fondly. MySchool websites are a natural for using Joomla Open Source Web Publishing. Because users can simply download the software and put it to work, there is no extensive set up time. Anyone who is familiar with other web publishing tools should have no trouble using the MySchool web pages.
Joomla Open Source Content Management System is built by the very people who are most familiar with the concepts that they use every day. The Joomla CMS is not someone in a designer's office somewhere who really doesn't have much understanding of the needs and requirements of a particular computer software task.
By having users vote on the modules which are made available at no charge, each person who desires can develop or customize the modules in order to emphasize features that they like and eliminate or modify features they don't like. This makes the modules easy to use by everyone involved.
Using Joomla to build the structure of the site means that it is not such a burden on one person. The basic structure is developed by using the easily accessible templates. Using templates for various features intended for the finished web site means minimal programming is involved in completing the site.
The construction of the MySchool website can essentially be accomplished by deciding what components are desired in the finished product, then choosing the modules and placing them within the site. For instance, if a blog component was desired, the web developer would simply install the blog module on the site. This ease of installation means that a blog could be added to the web site within a matter of hours from the time of deciding to include a blog component.
In the past, developing and maintaining a web site was a time consuming and daunting project. First you needed to find someone who had the expertise to design and program the website. Someone else might have to be recruited--usually on a volunteer basis to maintain the site. Usually another volunteer or group of volunteers took on the responsibility of maintaining such things as data files for tracking names, addresses and email addresses, not to mention telephone numbers, cell phone numbers and identifying name changes through marriage or divorce.
With Joomla though, the construction of the web site is a matter of choosing the appropriate modules and combining them on one's domain. If maintenance work must be done, choosing another module or modifying an existing module and making it available to other users is the purpose of Joomla in the first place.
The ease of setting up a data file is demonstrable. Maintaining the file is much easier when there is a standardized way of tracking information and any changes which occur.
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