Milestone 1

So far my group has worked on our chosen CMS': dotCMS, SilverStripe, Joomla, and Drupal. My CMS, SilverStripe has given me a lot of grief. The main things that we looked for in our CMS' is the implementation of google gadgets, charts, forums, CAS login. At first SilverStripe did not allow any javascript code to be entered in its html editor. There was no documentation on this anywhere in the SilverStripe website. I thought I was going to be the first one to drop the CMS. But as I heard from Joel that SilverStripe looks a lot like Joomla and that Joomla kind of had the same problem and he had to change a setting within it, I kept looking for a solution. AND I FOUND IT. tinyMCE is the html editor that SilverStripe uses, and it comments out certain code when entered. Now it was not as easy as Joomla where all you had to do was change a setting. I had to change code within the CMS just to have it work. So now I was able to catch up to my groups standing with their CMS'.







I was able to implement all the main things that we needed for our project. However, I am still playing catchup with the layout of the site, but I am glad to have gotten it working.

Milestone 1 for our group was to be able to get the CMS' to kind of do what we want the website to look like. And we have all completed/gotten through this milestone, but with some problems. My problems as of right now is the layout and the implementation of the CAS system.

For Milestone 2, I believe we are going to narrow down the CMS' we are working with to at least 2 and come closer to choosing a final CMS to work with.