One of the things we wanted to accomplish with the Joomla upgrade for student orgs was to allow for more and easier customization of their sites. We jump started this with a default set of 60+ themes, some commercial, some free that gave organizations a large base to work from. It’s been interesting to watch the paths students have been going down, and it looks like we have achieved some level of what we were looking for. I certainly see many more sites that have adopted different themes when compared to the initial Mambo roll out. Some of this may just be 3 years of “Internet time” whereby we have a student base that is more savvy in the use of these tools, but I like to hope that some of it is due to our efforts. Here’s a sampling of some sites that have gone beyond the basics:
Korean American Student Association
Carolina Association of Pharmacy Students
With student coming back next week, we will be scheduling group training sessions again to get people comfortable with the basics of managing their site. I hope to create some podcasts of these instructions as well. As usual, it comes down to time.