The Bridge
The main goal of Stroke Club website is to be a bridge for NSSRC to move to Content Management System (CMS) using Joomla!. This web site was donated by Michael Kanartchev in memorandum of his wife Marina.
The Stroke Club website is a fully functional prototype. The author has stroke in 2003 and the prototype is nicknamed "My Club". The design is modular so that it can be easily used for other stroke clubs.
Joomla! is one of the best and most widely used CMS application (20 million sites worldwide). It is suitable for creating online magazines, community-based portals, corporate or personal websites and more. It has numerous features and large external modules and components. It's free for personal and commercial use and has one of most vibrant development community ready to help.
My Club was developed with Joomla! 1.6.3. It uses the following extensions:
- Akeeba Backup is an open-source backup component for the Joomla! CMS. Its mission is simple: create a site backup that can be restored on any Joomla!-capable server.
- Gcalendar well known Events Calendar for Joomla!. GCalendar brings forward Google Calendar in any Joomla powered web site.
- Phoca Gallery is an image gallery for Joomla! CMS. It allows users to display images or YouTube videos in different styles.
All extensions are non-commercial. For a small fee you can be a member of there groups and access exclusively add-ons that greatly extend the functionality of their already powerful components.
Websites using Joomla! have a front end and a back end. The Joomla back end is visually well structured, with a clean and two ergonomic layout – one for general use and other for people with visual disability. Well for the front end you have the choice to find a template suitable for the application (My Club). Of course there is a default one. Joomla! works for years to make websites accessible, particularly to thevisually impaired.
Adding and editing pages is realized with WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. It means that no HTML knowledge is needed for writing and formatting content. WYSIWYG editor displays the content during editing the same way is will be displayed on the website. The editor has a tool bar which is similar to the tool bars of the popular text editing software like MS Word or OpenOffice Writer. Authorized members of the club can editing content from the front end of the website. For a security reason new documents will be created from the back end by a coordinator.
We hope to have a first web edition for the popular "Turtle soup" by Christmas!