The Webmaster's Bureau

The Webmaster's Bureau (TWB) contains articles, scripts and open source mods that show you how to create websites and ways to develop, market and maintain them.

You will find that our content tends to focus on the PHP Fusion content management system but our techniques, scripts and mods are usually easy to adapt and apply to many other website environments.

Join our growing online community for personal support and share your goals, problems and knowledge within a framework of mututal trust and respect. As a registered user you can post comments, questions AND answers.

PHP Fusion is a light-weight, open-source, content management system (CMS) written in PHP. It utilises a mySQL database to store your site content and includes a simple but comprehensive adminstration system.

We write articles about it, develop modifications for it and we use it to power TWB! If you need a website which you can update easily and that primarily contains text and pictures you'll find that PHP Fusion is intuitive and easy to use.

Visit: sourceforge.net to get your copy.

Step-by-step installation instructions and details of how to configure your site are available in the User Manual. Most of the administrative options are intuitive but the manual is essential reference material and we recommend you don't start without it.

Our interest in PHP Fusion goes beyond building websites with standard built in functionality. We are particularly interested in extending PHP Fusion as a content management framework which is equally suitable for the development of other Web applications. For example: as the basis for an Intranet application; a customisable GUI for the eBay developer API; or a personal (e-learner) content management system.

If you have specific requirements or would just like to sound off some ideas about how PHP Fusion can be extended and customised to produce unique web based solutions, we would like to hear about them. You can post such topics here.

We coined the term eCollegiates for branding of our tech free Online Website Builder and virtual hosting control panel (VCP) and to convey our philosophy of sharing goals, problems and knowledge within a framework of mututal trust and respect.

If you are looking for cheap Web Hosting for development or production purposes and would appreciate the reassurance of personal support from active webmasters (should you need it) this is the hosting plan for you.