Emania

Geoff - Skills Tasmania:

"We are taking over www.emania.org. It’s running on Joolma. Joolma is driving us insane. What content management system would you suggest? we think we really want to just use it for blogging."

Robin - Sprout Labs:

"Well, Workpress is used by a lot people and there are a lot plug-ins for it. I love SilverStripe because it’s easy to use and develop with, but there are not the many plug-ins."

The team at Skills Tasmania decided on Wordpress.

Skills Tasmania -

"We have got ourselves in a mess with all these plug-ins in Wordpress. Can you help us out?"

We took the team through the process of deciding what functionality they needed, and what sort of visual look and feel was right for their audience. Then we searches for Workpress plug-ins to meet those needs. This was all then combined, and somehow we got all the plug-ins working nicely together! The visual design went through a process of developing mock-ups and then we refined the layout and colours of the design.

The final step was training the Skills Tasmania team on how to update the site.

The Skills Tasmania team has found one of the most valuable features to be the form building plug-in that allows them to build registration forms for events.

After this project and the nightmare of plug-ins, we chose to focus on using Silverstripe as our preferred Content Management System.

The site can be seen at http://www.emania.org