Joomla - This is a content management system (CMS), most organistations have their own CMS that is customised to them, for example and at the BBC their CMS is called CPS. Joomla is fairly robust at enabling people to submit articles and then the sub editors can they receive, check and put them on the website very quickly. The pages do look a bit boring and its quite hard to put pictures on and make them looks nice therefore it is quite hard to create designed pages on Joomla.
Live bulletin - We mainly used LiveStream last year as it gives us the capability to stream the bulletin as live. The only thing that can stream the bulletin as actual live is UStream, which we need to set the Tricaster up for, we did this for out General Election Coverage. We have four LiveStream channels for news, sport, community and entertainment. This enables us to loop a verity of content across these channels.
The website - www.winol.co.uk is a forwarding address domain name and the actual resident URL of the site is www.winchesterjournalism.co.uk/joomla_1.5_winol/. If you are not an administrator then you will need to log in from the WINOL homepage. However if you are an administrator when you log in this the screen you will be greeted with - the control panel.
Add New Article - Does exactly what it says on the tin, allows you to add a new article.
Article Manager - Displays all the articles on the site at any one time. Allows for quick publishing to the site and/or front page and the ability to change the order that the articles appear on any page. You can also control who has permission to view certain articles. It also displays the section of the site that the article comes under (news, sport, etc) and then categories within that (football, cricket, etc). It then displays who wrote it, making you personally liable for suing purposes - however you hopefully won't get sued. You need to know when there might be problems, you don't really need to know the law, just recognise the risk. The date the article was last edited, the amount of hits it has had, and it's unique id is also displayed.
Front Page Manager - The front page is the first page people will see when coming to the site and in most cases the only page they will visit and so it's absolutely crucial and you need to have lots of hooks to draw the reader in. Good sub editing will help with this. We also need barkers that display content on the site. The whole magazine business works on churns and uses barkers to sell the magazine content using the front page. Three vital words for the front page are WIN, FREE, SEX for tabloids. We should operate under a similar scheme. Maybe not sex though, the law on pornography is that the material has been produced with intend to create sexual arousal. So legally we could have our own Page 3 WINOL girls. Essentially all we really need is WIN and FREE. So we need a good competition like 'Date with Fate' last year when anyone has the chance of winning something for free.
Section manager/Category Manager - Already set up. The separate section and catorigories of the site.
Media Manger - This is where you will upload any type of media (pictures, music, video, etc) to include with your article and to put on the site.
User Manager - Keep your password safe and don't tell anyone else so you someone else can't make you appear liable and frame you as it were. The permission or articles that you have access to are also displayed on this page. When you log in to the user manager it will show you everyone's status. Chris can control what access that you will have to the site. Here you can also change your password. When you're logged in you can see who else in online and when they were last on, etc. You won't be able to log in to the administrator page if you are not an administrator and will only be able to log in on the homepage.
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