Introduction

Contents

1. Introduction
    1.1 The rock-bottom assumptions
    1.2 The Website@School teams
        1.2.1 Core team
        1.2.Translators
        1.2.3 Code contributors
    1.3 Main design viewpoints

2. Features

3. Available modules

4. Supported languages

5. Wish List

6. Useful sites and links

7. References

8. History

9. To conclude

1. Introduction

Website@School is a website content management system (CMS) specially designed to build, manage and maintain the websites of schools.

1.1 The rock-bottom assumptions

Website@School has a firm foundation, both on the visible surface as well as 'under the hood'. Its basics were forged with the help of Jürgen Habermas and Donald Knuth.

1.2 The Website@School teams

On the shoulders of the above giants, a couple of dwarfs (the core team) have tried to create a real world educational website content management system: Website@School.

1.2.1 Core team

The core team of Website@School consists of: Karin Abma (ICT coordinator of the Public Primary School Rosa Boekdrukker in Amsterdam, the Neterhlands), Peter Fokker (PSD Engineering, main developer, programmer) and Dirk Schouten (former teacher, volunteer, user manuals writer). Carla Alma and Margret Kwantes are trying to raise money. Please donate!

1.2.2 Translators

Many people, from all over the world have helped making Website@School available for pupils, teachers and schools. Please help education in your coutry by translating Website@School in your language. It's quite simple with our Translate Tool.

In alphabetical order:

1.2.3 Code contributions

Website@School also uses code created by other software developers. We thank them for their projects and their desire to share their code. The following contributions can be found in Website@School:

1.3 Main design viewpoints

Over the years the guiding design viewpoints have developed into the following: These viewpoints were shaped in features. Please read the next paragraph.

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2. Features

Detailed information on the features can be found in the chapters that describe the main functions and the modules. Below a general description of the Website@School features in no specific order.

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3. Available modules

Website@School has the following modules: Please help us by developing more modules and write to: info@websiteatschool.eu

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4. Supported languages

Website@School is available in the following languages:

Check our http://websiteatschool.eu site to see if new languages are available that are not yet incorporated in Website@School.

You can help schools in your country by translating Website@School. The system provides an easy Tanslate Tool for 'on the fly' translations, sent by e-mail.

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5. Wishlist

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6. Useful sites and links

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7. References

Further reading, if you like. A lot can be partially found on the Internet.

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8. History

Webstie@School is the successor of Site@School, born in 2002. The history can best be summarised with [1]:

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Since we had years of experience with Site@School - which still has thousands of schools worldwide using it-, there was little need to change requirements. In that way Site@School was an excellent prototype. We only had to add long awaited features that were impossible to incorporate in good old Site@School.

[1]: Courtesy Mr. Randall Munroe of xkcd.com who permits using his comics for this use. Source: http://m.xkcd.com/844/.

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8. To conclude

Nuff said, back to work.

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Author: Dirk Schouten <schoutdi (at) knoware (dot) nl>
Last updated: 2011-02-11