Launched fraternitymanuals.com
Posted Friday, April 8th, 2005 at 3:23 pm
Yesterday Lambda Chi Alpha publicly announced the launching of fraternitymanuals.com, a wiki-based website I built for all fraternal organizations.
I built the site using MediaWiki, the open source software that powers Wikipedia, among others. Though WikiMedia is a very powerful piece of software, I found it much more difficult to work with as a designer than say WordPress, a blogging tool.
MediaWiki made some effort to permit designers to create new skins, but didn’t really separate content, design, and function. I had such a hard time trying to figure out how to create a new skin from scratch that I just gave up and modified the default Monobook skin.
Feel free to download my modified Monobook skin, shown here.
Once MediaWiki fully separates the PHP, XHTML, and CSS; I think designers are going to eat it up. Such a format would have certainly made my work on fraternitymanuals.com much easier.
