Scoil.net Websites - Technical Vs 'So-What' Overview

This short article gives a summary overview of the most important aspects of a Scoil.net School Website - but in describing the main features, describes these in layman's terms and how they can benefit your school. For example "tight integration of file management with the WYSIWYG" sounds wonderful - but plainly spoken translates into "you can easily insert all your images, documents, videos, etc. from right there in the page you are working on".

Technical Feature	So What?
CMS-based	With a CMS (Content Management System), you don't need any copy of your website on one computer, you don't need to upload all your pages, you don't have to update all your pages when you change the menu, you don't need expensive or technical software to work on your website. The top websites in irish education and school websites are CMS-based - IPPN, LDS, PPDS, Scoil Íde, Dominican College and many more (and by the way, all of these websites were developed by us)
Browser-based editing	From any computer, with no special software, you (and your pupils / staff) can update pages by opening a page, typing (or pasting) content and clicking Save.
Completely database driven site	The system does smart things automatically like listing latest articles, archiving old pages, displaying news from other website to keep your site fresh etc.
File-system integrated WYSIWYG (non-standard editor which is much much better than Tiny MCE, FCK editor, other native user interfaces)	Making content entry EASY (text, images, audio, video, files, resources etc.) is what you and your staff will appreciate. This system is the easiest, most intuitive CMS (Content Management System) system ever - and Scoil.net have developed ScoilPac to work even better and even easier!
Built on Open Source Software	Without Open Source software, the ScoilPac would cost tens of thousands of euro.
Fully customisable layouts	You can move the modules (eg news module, calendar module, parents sign-up module) around the page with one click, and have total control over presentational aspects