Groupie
Groupie is a little project I've been working on that lets you rapidly develop a dynamic web site (one with "dynamic" content). It's aimed at giving people who normally struggle with content editing concepts a chance while letting people with a little more knowledge achieve stuff very quickly. It encourages good style, using convention where possible to set things up the easy way, so it just works, on all browsers.
WYSIWYG editing of the page is one of the major advantages. You literally edit the web page, you see what it really looks like with styles applied.
Groupie is aimed at "groups" or clubs or associations or... basically it is intended to supply everything a group may need. Web presence, mailing list, forum, membership management etc. At it's current Beta state the web site bit is the focus, with a membership component.
I'm working on plugin architecture... but you can already write modules to leverage the functionality behind Groupie.
Check back here - I intend adding Groupie documentation and downloads etc. here. Needless to say this is a Groupie powered site, nothing quite like eating your own dog food to make it taste better.
WYSIWYG editing of the page is one of the major advantages. You literally edit the web page, you see what it really looks like with styles applied.
Groupie is aimed at "groups" or clubs or associations or... basically it is intended to supply everything a group may need. Web presence, mailing list, forum, membership management etc. At it's current Beta state the web site bit is the focus, with a membership component.
I'm working on plugin architecture... but you can already write modules to leverage the functionality behind Groupie.
Check back here - I intend adding Groupie documentation and downloads etc. here. Needless to say this is a Groupie powered site, nothing quite like eating your own dog food to make it taste better.
Goals
- The 5 minute web site - You should be up and running with an editable and readable web site in 5 minutes
- Anyone who can use a word processor can edit pages with basic word processor functionality without breaking good design.
- Good design should (almost) just happen when you create a Groupie site. (This will be hard :-) ).
- Experienced designers and web developers can rapidly develop sophisticated web sites and applications.
- User and Membership management out of the box - this is not CRM but membership management suitable for groups like clubs or user groups or small charity style organisations. Linking to CRM style databases should be possible.
- Mailing list out of the box - Mailing lists where registered users and members are automatically added and editable. Users/members can opt in/out and change mailing list options.
- Forums out of the box - group forums are fully integrated and linked to content so that posts with comments become forums.