Re: [Refresh Austin: 6663] CMS and employee only portal

[Ann Dobbs]

Do you have any skills with PHP or another scripting language? Even just a little bit? I might be able to help you out and teach you the solutions and give you pointers on learning more in it. It's open source with a huge amount of information and some pre-written code on the Web so you can keep learning more in the future. You can also use it with MySQL, a free database management system. Both of them are usable on most hosting companies as well.
Just let me know if you're interested.
Thanks,
Ann Dobbs
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On 9/14/2012 9:55 AM, Lukas Oktaba wrote:

Hello Refresh Austin, 

I'm a freelance web designer/ developer, I'm currently working on a project that is a little out of my element. I need to develop a site that has a cms and an employee only portal where the client would upload documents and make announcements. Also their would be a employee log-in where employees could download documents.

Anyone know how I can get this done, I am looking for a salution that I can take to future projects and grow my skills with. Any help or ideas would greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

-Lukas.O  

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[Fito Kahn]

Lucas

I would be willing to help you out. We have a team of people with different skills called multimedia partners. We could possible help you and you might be able to help with our projects. 

Fito Kahn

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[Lukas Oktaba]

Thank you for your responses,
Ann the most php experience I have is developing an action for a
contact form, all it did was send an email with fields that were
selected. If you have the time to teach me or help me set a plan of
action I will be more than willing to take the time to listen.

Fito if you have the time, I would like to work with multimedia
partners, although I’m not looking for someone to develop this for me
rather than develop it myself. I also have a logo I need to design. I
made some examples myself but they did not pass as a final.

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-Lukas Oktaba

[Lukas Oktaba]

Does anyone know of any third party service that can provide this? or
would it be more profitable to develop it myself, I have 2 more months
left on the contract

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[Stu Smith]

I recommend contacting Matt Mccloskey at Osmek and getting his advice: Ma...@osmek.com

Stu Smith

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[Fito Kahn]

Lucas
Call or email me to discuss. We can help you develop the site with you learning as we work together.
Fito
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[Mark Phillip]

With your skillset and requirements, this sounds like a great task for WordPress.


Thanks,
Mark
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[Stu Smith]

Wouldn't use wordpress for that employee only portal ;)

Stu Smith

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[Mark Phillip]

I absolutely would...


Thanks,
Mark
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[Fito Kahn]

Lucas

I agree with stu. I recently created a site with your requirements using Drupal and would suggest that cms.

Fito

[Bill Erickson]

I've built quite a few CRM's and internal tools using WordPress, and I'm currently building one for a Fortune 100 company.


I don't see any reason to recommend Drupal over WordPress for that.

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[Prashant Sheth]

Hi Lukas

I provide a hosted solution that already does this.  It is based on DotNetNukevtech and ave a few clients using it as you want to.  Additionally my system allows granular control at user level, so if you want to limit doc access not only by user group (eg employees vs vendors) you can do that by user (let Joe access a doc, but not John) we dan do that too.  Its a reasonable setup fee to get started and a monthly fee (include upgrade, DB optimize and support) of around $50-100 (depends on no of users/space/etc).  So it should be easy.  We can also do white label and cobranded options

My marketing material for this is "in-process" but will beat www.MyOrgWorks.com sometime next week

Let me know howvwe can help, and yes, i am local to Austin so available to meeting as well for a demo!

Regards,

Prashant

512.917.2308

[kevinw]

Would you mind posting your solution when finished?  Curious how you execute this.  I'm installing an employee discussion forums for a client on their WordPress site.  They wanted to have a space to collaborate and post new idea etc.  I used SimplePress which was pretty easy to setup.  This may not be the best solution for you though.   

[Lukas Oktaba]

yes I was looking into Drupal, I just want to make sure that project
would give me more experience as a developer. This way I can open more
doors in the future. That's why I was debating on custom code or
third party because I do have some time left, but not sure if it's
enough to do it in a new language.

[Ann Dobbs]

Lukas,
I agree with Bill. Wordpress uses PHP, which is why I was asking if you knew it. I can teach you about Wordpress and how to modify the Wordpress PHP to customize the site. Since Wordpress has already written a lot of the code for you, the learning curve can be easier. There's also many plugins created by other developers that can customize the functionality and appearance of a Wordpress site even more. You only need to initially learn the basics of PHP and then, initially, just enough to complete the site for you.
I just got through doing a customized website that included some of what you've asked for with another designer last month, Karen Frost (De...@webdeeva.com) and I believe she'll give you a reference on how that went. Her site didn't require as much functionality, though, so yours would take a little bit more work and probably a little bit more knowledge of PHP but still definitely doable.
Thanks,
Ann Dobbs

On 9/14/2012 11:46 AM, Bill Erickson wrote:

I've built quite a few CRM's and internal tools using WordPress, and I'm currently building one for a Fortune 100 company.


I don't see any reason to recommend Drupal over WordPress for that.

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[Brian Kinsella]

Hi Lukas,

Seems to me that investing more time diving deeper into requirements analysis up front will be enormously helpful in guiding the selection of a specific solution platform, related tools, and implementation and maintenance methodologies. So many questions come to mind, off the top of my head ...

* security and governance policies: over the wire inside and outside firewall, information access: what, when, by whom, how fine-grained (page, document, element levels?); who maintains customer employee accounts, employee accounts; security-trimmed UIs?

* CMS - for what primary purposes: comprehensive EMC with e-discovery? more publishing and maintaining web pages? page-oriented or element-oriented? primary types of digital artifacts (HTML text, movies, images)?

* Assuming CMS primarily for web publishing purposes, what workflows to implement? (authoring, editing, SME review, final pub approval, publication and take-down dates, versioning)

* What metadata will be developed and maintained throughout published pages, documents and other artifacts. Controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, folksonomies?

* What kind of documents (Microsoft Office, PDF, other?). Need for read/write access, versioning? Need to track access, restrict access? * * 

* Who will upload documents?

* Search? Security-trimmed search?

* how many total users?

* how many concurrent users now and in foreseeable future?


Answers to these and other questions involved in a more rigorous examination of your client's needs (both stated and, sometimes more importantly, not yet articulated) can better inform some key strategic decisions: make or buy (i.e., engage a consulting firm for open source or consulting and licensing fees for proprietary? if buy, cloud or self-hosted? what platform? platform out-of-the-box capabilities and learning curves for you and your client.

Just some thoughts.

Best success,

Brian

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