Hello and welcome to the BG Views Developer Blog. If you already read the snippet to the right, then you have a general idea of what this blog is about (alternatively, you could go read the snippet to the right before continuing here - I can wait).

First, a somewhat brief history of our web site.

In the beginning we hosted the site entirely our self, and it was good. It took a lot of people however. At first the site was done in BBEdit, then in Dreamweaver, and then we partnered with a provider who gave us a slick CMS to use, and greatly lowered the amount of man hours it took to produce our site.

Said partner got bought by bigger college media company. Rinse and repeat about five times (no joke) and now we are partnered with College Publisher, who themselves just got bought by mtvU.

We are making a rather large leap in the web space for our college newspaper, The BG News. We are redesigning our site in polopoly, which is the new CP5 platform (they threw the baby - CP4 - out with the bathwater when they acquired College Publisher I guess); we are moving away from a strait news site (more on that later); and we are re-branding our online presence.

Though College Publisher is not (yet) offering - they say its coming - BG Views offers many ways for citizen journalism. We wanted not only the BGSU campus, but the community of Bowling Green at large, to be as involved with our web site as we are.

Our site went live in CP5 on Feb. 25, 2009. Though only a small portion of the site runs in it. The Community Sites/Blogs and Forums run in Movable Type 4 Pro, the Blogs run in Movable Type Open Source, the Housing Directory runs in Joomla with jReviews (though this is getting moved into Movable Type Pro) and the Events Calendar is run in Helios Calendar.