Comments on: CMC.edu Sucks

By: CMC.edu, Still Below Average « The Forum

CMC.edu, Still Below Average « The Forum — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:43:27 +0000

[...] college’s entire web presence. But are we heading in the right direction? We all have our own opinions on CMC’s homepage, but we’re fortunate to now have some input from an impartial and experienced third-party. [...]

By: Richard Rodner, Web 2.0, and You « The Forum

Richard Rodner, Web 2.0, and You « The Forum — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:02:39 +0000

[...] The CMC homepage is less than ideal and the school knows it. Vice-President of Public Affairs and Communication Richard Rodner has been here for about nine months and he’s just now found his footing in order to take the first serious step in improving CMC’s portal to the rest of the world.Since coming to CMC from the UCLA Anderson School of Management in February, Rodner has been at the forefront of promoting our school. On September 22, the Public Affairs Office released an email detailing upcoming changes to the CMC website. While these updates work to add some visual flair to the cmc.edu domain, more comprehensive overhauls are currently in the pipeline. [...]

By: Annie Jalota

Annie Jalota — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:29:23 +0000

I couldn’t agree more! I deeply dislike the CMC website! It makes me go GRRR!

By: Annie Jalota

Annie Jalota — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:29:00 +0000

I couldn’t agree more! I deeply dislike the CMC website! It makes me go GRRR!

By: Sean McGregor

Sean McGregor — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:22:18 +0000

White Whale uses an enterprise CMS of another company, http://websolutions.opentext.com/. Skipping the technical reasons for why Drupal is preferable (economic arguments are more effective here), working through a firm using a closed source CMS makes us captives to the pricing and R&D of two different firms. Drupal is free, and benefits from the work of thousands of developers from around the world. Initial development would likely cost the same, but improvements would be cheaper/easier on Drupal.

Also, an open source solution would allow all ~23 departments/institutes to use the same source as cmc.edu. With that taken care of, a theme designer could change the look and feel for dirt cheap on a per department basis. This would also spread out the cost among the many institute/department budgets.

I might be dating myself here, but does anyone like Blackboard (commercial) more than Sakai (open source)?

By: Sean McGregor

Sean McGregor — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:22:00 +0000

I might be dating myself here, but does anyone like Blackboard (commercial) more than Sakai (open source)?

By: Josh Siegel

Josh Siegel — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:55:42 +0000

Clarification 7/17/09: There has been some finger pointing going on since this article was published, so I’d like to clarify that ITS has no role in the design of CMC.edu. I’m sorry if it was unclear in the article– I put that part in there because some people were placing blame in the wrong places– only Public Affairs is responsible for the design of the website.

By: Josh Siegel

Josh Siegel — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:55:00 +0000

By: Bidders?

Bidders? — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:11:32 +0000

It’s wishful thinking to believe that CMC would go out and get bids or look at a variety of companies. Last I heard, they were just going to hire some guy who knew someone who knew someone. Typical CMC administration…

By: Bidders?

Bidders? — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:11:00 +0000