I need some input on if SilverStripe can do the job.
I work for a school district and we don't have money to spend on a good CMS. I downloaded Silverstripe and have been playing with it. My goal is to use 1 installation of silverstripe and have LDAP integrated for our users to log in with their windows accounts. Currently I have our main district site and our intranet site. Under each of these I have subsites for each department with their content and drop menus. I also have seperate schools with their content and drop menus. And.. last but not least we have around 30 teacher sites that are subwebs under our teacher sites web site.
We currently are using CMSMS (Content Management System Made Simple) and have different installations for each web site and sub web site. As you can imagine, this has become a REAL PAIN with upgrades and managing.
Can 1 installation of silverstripe do the job for all my different websites and sub webs?
I imagine this layout, this is the simple version of a MUCH MORE COMPLEX situation:
Home
About Us
Contact Us
Students
---Calendars/Schedules
---Newsletters
---School Sites
---Teacher Sites
Parents
---Calendars/Schedules
---Newsletters
---Parent Portal
---School Sites
---Teacher Sites
Staff
---Intranet
---Email
---Infinite Campus
---School Sites
---Teacher Sites
Schools
---School 1 (I want schools to go to a completely different template with it's own drop menu on the left)
------About Us
------Contact Us
------Newsletters
------Calendar
------Handbook
District Administration
---Board of Education
------Board Minutes
----------2009-2010
----------2008-2009
----------2007-2008
----------2006-2007
---Instruction & Assessment
------Annual Events
------Assessment
------Staff Development
----------District Classes
--------------Course Offerings
--------------Independent Projects
----------Out of District Classes
----------Master Degree Programs
---IT Dept
---Special Education
------Support Services
District Information Resources
Teacher Sites
---School 1
------Teacher 1
----------Contact
----------About Us
----------Blog
----------Assigments
------Teacher 2
------Teacher 3
Please let me know if I am wasting my time on Silverstripe.
Any suggestions or ideas would be WONDERFUL!