Aug 25, 2006 : Nacio Converts Buck Institute Site

📅 August 25, 2006 - Web hosting and development company Nacio (nacio.com) announced on Thursday it has completed the conversion of The Buck Institute for Age Reasearch's Web site (buckinstitute.org) to the Joomla content management system (joomla.org).


"With the site migrated to Joomla," says Charles Wyke-Smith, director of production at Nacio, "the Buck Institute is able to take complete control of the content on its Web site, enabling non-technical members of the Buck staff to add content on an ongoing basis. Workflow and permissions based access ensures that every piece of content goes through a pre-defined approval chain before going live, and users can be assigned specific areas of the site, or even individual pages, that they can edit."

Joomla is an open source content management system that enables users to separate Web site content from its underlying code so content can be added through a Microsoft Word-like interface by anyone who is familiar with the system. Each piece of content is automatically assigned a display template, and editors can choose typefaces and sizes from a menu of approved styles, enabling a consistent appearance.

The Buck Institute is the only freestanding institute in the US that is devoted solely to basic research on aging and age-associated disease. The independent nonprofit organization is dedicated to extending the healthspan, the healthy years of each individual's life.