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@jatchsion

I am still in over my head and have not progressed at all. It is sad how slowly this is moving, both on a personal scale but also on a state/national scale.

I have a new friend who does a ton of stuff with WordPress and we are working to find a compromise where the PTAs can pay him a little money (he has a professional business) and he can generate a template for the entire school district.

That’s a good start. What about something to handle pictures/videos? A Donation app?

We found the most difficult part is deciding how to hook all this up with other social media (facebook, twitter, sms text messages, tumblr, dropbox, etc). WordPress has hooks for most if not all of those things, but it becomes a bit of a pain to manage it. And what if the next IT person wants to do something else? The only “solution” we have so far is that we just have to do the best we can right now and not worry about what is going to happen in 5 years.

mdcleaver: I have yet to find any “templates” to speak of. I have found lots of schools/ptas that are using a smattering of home-built custom code (some of it is VERY NICE, some of it… not so much) to procuring 3rd-party pro-bono help under 301(c)(3) and still others that pay top dollar for shiny websites. There is a huge variety in platforms; php, mysql, js, wordpress, facebook, google and the proprietary stuff. It’s all over the map.

I did try to implement my own on www.ads-software.com, but found that I was quickly getting over my head with details and making it too complex. Need to simplify.

If you need help, give a holler. I don’t know jack about dutch (*grin*) and my programming skills have waned since the college years, but I am willing to at least try something.

Nobody?