Allotment Management Software

[Unwashed]

I'm thinking about writing some site management software to help with all the kinds of management thingies a site needs, like tenant details, site map, the waiting list, billing, sending out reminders and warnings, site inspections, etc - anything that would be useful for site management really.

It'll be free, and I'm thinking that I'll write it as a Joomla component so that it can just be part of your site's web site - and if you don't have a site web-site then you'll get one!  I'm thinking about Joomla because it's quite popular and has a decent application framework.  With luck it'll be pretty straight forward to access the site from a smart-phone which might be useful for site inspections.

Just thinking out loud at the moment and wondered if anyone had any thoughts?

[Unwashed]

[daveylamp993]

what a great idea,good luck with it,please let me know when its up and running.

[pansy potter]

I'm sure that a lot of members would find something like that very useful.

[Trevor_D]

Sounds useful. Not sure I follow the Joomla bit, but I daresay it will become obvious!

(Ain't some people clever!?! In the days of Basic, I used to be able to do idiot-level programming, now I struggle to keep up with the vocabulary....)

[Unwashed]

Sounds useful. Not sure I follow the Joomla bit, but I daresay it will become obvious!

(Ain't some people clever!?! In the days of Basic, I used to be able to do idiot-level programming, now I struggle to keep up with the vocabulary....)

Joomla is a free and extendable Content Management System, so out of the box you can just use it for your web site because it does all the usual things like news items, links, and user management.  And there are a whole bunch of free extensions available too like personal messaging, forum, guest book, news letter, feed aggregation, customer relationship management, calendar, all sorts.  Its look is also highly customizable with lots of free templates available to give it the look and feel you want.

Here's an example site.

I could write the software so you'd run it on your home PC, and then I'd maybe do something with excel macros maybe, but I figure that some of the data could usefully be available on the internet, like the waiting list and application process for example, and so it makes sense to make the whole thing a web application that's seemlessly part of your site's web site.  Of course if your web site doesn't use Joomla then it won't exactly be seamless, but if it's free and supported that might be a good reason to migrate.

Actually it's a while since I was a software engineer so a lot of what I knew is obsolete now and I'll have to learn a whole new bunch of stuff.