Here is the backend of a WordPress site where pages are laid out using a WYSIWYG editor and other features of the site are managed.
Content management systems (CMS) are web applications that store website content in a database and output the content with styled templates. This makes it easier for website administrators and non-technical contributors to maintain sites. My CMS of choice lately is WordPress, while I have additional experience in Joomla!, Drupal, MediaWiki, and Sharepoint.
WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal use PHP scripting to call a database, usually MySQL. I have experience managing MySQL databases with phpMyAdmin on remote and local servers as well as modifying PHP code within open source CMS web applications.
Sites that I installed and maintained the CMS and its content.
- 2011 – present. beeinformed.org. The Bee Informed Partnership blog and homepage. A USDA-NIFA CAP project website. uses WordPress. http://beeinformed.org/
- 2011 – present. my4acres.com. My portfolio homepage. uses WordPress http://my4acres.com
- 2011 – present. rosecombapiaries.com. My beekeeping business website, uses WordPress http://rosecombapiaries.com/
- 2008 – present. bees.tennessee.edu. University of Tennessee, Bees and Beekeeping. Currently migrating to SharePoint. http://bees.tennessee.edu/
- 2007 – 2011. my4acres.com. Combined homepage, used Joomla!
- 2007 – present. acbeekeepers.org Anderson County Beekeepers Association. uses WordPress http://acbeekeepers.org/
- 2007 – 2009. thechapelonthehill.org. The Chapel on the Hill homepage. uses Joomla! http://thechapelonthehill.org/
Sites using a CMS where I am the content manager
- 2008 – present. extension.org/bee_health. A coordinated web-based outreach system for USDA programs with over 100 apiculture professionals from universities and USDA-ARS labs. http://www.extension.org/bee_health
