Full Title: WordPress for Dummies
Author: Lisa Sabin-Wilson
Publisher: Wiley Publishing
Date: 2009 (2nd Edition)

Lisa Sabin-Wilson has been working with WordPress since 2002, and is the founder of E.WebScapes Design Studio. She has extensive experience of blogging, having built over 1,000 personal and professional blogs, and is a frequent speaker at blogging and social media conferences.

“Blogs are as much a part of life today as the evening newspaper was fifty years ago, and for much the same reason: Inquiring minds want to know. WordPress powers some of the most popular blogs on the Web, and with this guide to help, it can work for you, too. Here’s what WordPress does, how to set it up and use it, and some cool bells and whistles to make your blog stand out.”

I’m particularly interested in using WordPress as a stand-alone CMS for small business sites, and am currently investigating the possibilities.

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Full Title: Joomla! A User’s Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website
Author: Barrie M. North
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: 2008

“If you want to build sophisticated websites that can be easily edited and updated, you need to master Joomla! Now there’s an easy-to-read, easy-to-use guide to Joomla! for every site manager, administrator, and developer. Leading Joomla! consultant Barrie North covers all you need to get results: installation, administration, site organisation, template development, content updates and more. You’ll find never before published tips, tricks and troubleshooting solutions, as well as three start-to-finish case studies.

New to Joomla!? No problem! This book starts with the simplest design and system concepts and builds your exercise step-by-step. You’ll rapidly master Joomla’s power, even if you have no content management, scripting, or CSS expertise. Experienced to Joomla!? You’ll constantly turn to this book for its authoritative, plain-English, example-rich Joomla! 1.5 reference content.”

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By the end of February 2005, the new University College Winchester (now University of Winchester) portal was planned for ‘go-live’

• Using a CMS (content management system), I was given responsibility for the section content ‘About Us’, ‘Research’ (illustrated here) and ‘Business’.
• I collected material from sources already available, and, after meetings with appropriate personnel, a structure devised, and new data was requested and re-edited.
• I also worked on other sections as requested.

I was asked to do the work as a result of working on previous internet projects for the College.