APS6: Hold Up! WordPress Can Do That?!? GTFO!

Audience: Hey, I'm getting just a little.

Michael Richwalsky: Are they going to work on that? First off, thank you all very much for coming. I want you to get going with some Katy Perry at the end of a long day. It's been a lot of sessions, a lot of sittings, so I thought we'd get it going.

Today I'm going to talk about WordPress and all the amazing things that WordPress can do that maybe didn't know it could do. So that's where we came up with the -- with the GTFO. So feel free today to use the hashtag. We found out today as we were just searching for that in our TweetDeck that it's a lot of traffic that hashtag. So if you see anything in there that you're --

To quickly tell you who we are, my name is Michael Richwalsky. I work at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. I'm -- Ohio, I'm new, I don't know that yet, sorry. I've just been there seven or eight months. I came over from Allegheny College where Jesse is.

And both of our institutions we're now really rolling out WordPress across the board to do a lot of different things. And as we jog into that, really was amazed by how much it can do as you dig down deep into it. So WordPress users, who's using WordPress right now for something? Oh, man. All right, awesome. So for those of you who don't know what it is, WordPress is just a blogging system. That's all it does. Should we say no?

It does a ton of different things and it's amazing what you can do with it spending a little time either with plugins or themes or different services of the stuff that you can do with it. So I thought we'd start out after the great Katy Perry music because it ties in here to play a little game called, spot the WordPress site.

So I'm going to show you four sites. We can start with Network Solutions, it's a pretty big name. This is CBS New York, kind of a cool site. Big time, let me get a much bigger market than New York. We'll get the aforementioned Katy Perry. The first time and probably only time I'll go to her website to take the screen grab. If you like her website, great, the songs are catchy. And actually, this is a sub site inside Volkswagen for their TDI vehicle, their diesel vehicles. It's kind of a social game, tank wars -- TDI tank wars games.

So to kind of recap, we've got TDS New York, Network Solutions -- you see where this is all going, right? Katy Perry. All right, so which one is the WordPress site?

Audience: All of them.

Michael Richwalsky: They all are. And that's what's so amazing about this software is that you can do all these kinds of stuff. So they are all WordPress. So why is WordPress great? A lot of reasons. The first is that it's -- it's open source, it's very hackable, it's very hackable-friendly, it scales pretty well. You can extend it with plugins and themes and there's this amazing community that has developed, people that supported who are developing themes, who are selling themes, who are really building their entire businesses on doing WordPress stuff whether it's design or plugins or custom maps that sit on top of it, it really is an amazing ecosystem that you can dug -- dig into it. I like it because it gives you a lot of ways to make content because really, it's just the vehicle for you to serve the content. I like the -- you can serve -- you can make content in a lot of ways.

There's the browser, that's the easy one, make stuff in your browser. There are third-party tools, Windows Live Raid. I think we're right to it. Mar is at it. If you are on the Mac it's a great tool if you're writing a ton of content for WordPress. It will do post and pages and Mar is at it. And they've got a really great iPhone android iPad app. They do a lot of development on there and are constantly adding new features. They just rolled out an update last week that lets you do a video and geotagging all the stuff inside their iPhone app. It's pretty amazing stuff.

So we're going to talk about like nine different things you can do. Some that are obvious, some that are not as obvious that you can do with WordPress. So I figured let's start it with the most obvious one, the one that we're probably using it all for which is the blog. That -- that's kind of the easy one. It's super user-friendly.

I -- you can do any kind of theme and layout whether we mention that. If you don't have the time to design your own theme there are ton of free themes or a ton that you can pay for that range in price from very little to actually very expensive. If you spend time and you're kind of the higher ad web blogosphere you're going to notice a lot of the sites and all the cool kids are doing it. They're all using it. So a variety of different kinds of sites to do that.

Jesse Lavery: All right, can you guys hear me?

Michael Richwalsky: The mic is out.

Jesse Lavery: Some mic issues. All right. So the next use, now that the obvious one is out of the way, is as a full CMS and I know this is getting a lot more attention. We're both running it at our respective schools as CMS to serve our entire college website. At my school at Allegheny we were running it as WordPress MU before the WordPress 3.0 upgrade.

We've gone through the upgrade, we're running the full network of sites. We have currently 151 sites and that's growing. We still have some outliers that we haven't moved over to WordPress yet, 104 users and that's going to grow a lot because we are still training all of the academic departments on updating their own stuff. So we're serving already a fairly good size network.

All of the administrator boxes are live on it. Like I said, all the academic departments are live but not yet updating themselves. Some committees, student involvement, those kinds of organizations on campus are all using it. We developed a custom page template in-house that still allows for quite a bit of customization with each site.

There's unique page headers, there's different layout options but it's all one template and all still maintains the -- what we want the Allegheny look and feel to be.

Michael Richwalsky: We are relatively new at John Carroll using WordPress. We launched our instance in August of this year with a couple of pilot sites. Everything so far has been going really well. It's just is a support dream. When users call me I'm able to fix them very easily. I get calls now because we haven't rolled it out to everybody on campus. I get calls in how do I fix my Dreamweaver template and I say, "Er, I got no idea. Have you thought about moving to the CMS?"

All right, so just in that month we launched -- launched our -- are in various stages of development of 27 sites. We've got 35 people across campus developing in WordPress and our uses range from a sustainability site, we're doing some admissions enrolment marketing sites including a brand -- oh, not a brand new but an advertising campaign that we're running across a couple of areas in Ohio in New York, Pennsylvania.

We've just launched last week our alumni magazine in WordPress. We're going to talk a little bit about that today. International admissions, WordPress is really good at languages and different character sets. We're doing some testing right now in Chinese just plain that in WordPress and it is going pretty well. And sites vary on campus like a civic engagement and student activities are being built right now.

This example of our -- one of our enrolment marketing pieces, this is a temporary kind of looking feel to get us through. We've started - I don't know if Tony is here - a redesigned that we're pushing through this year. So this is kind of our temporary look to get us through. Until that's ready we had a bigger need for CMS now than waiting until next year.

So say similar areas, you know, we can do some fun stuff up here as well as some larger marketing pieces. All of this is controllable by our users across campus. They don't have to call me. They can be adding a lot of this on their own.

Jesse Lavery: So as a CMS we just wanted to point out a couple of must-have plugins in our experience. As we've kind of gotten the CMS usage up and running on our campuses these are plugins that we would not want to live without. We'll go through each of these in a little bit more detail. First up, Amazon S3 for WordPress.

Michael Richwalsky: This is a plugin that allows any media that your campus users upload is automatically transferred to an Amazon S3 bucket which means that technically, you have unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth. You really just pay for what you use.

So you can allow users to build big libraries of media, photos, and video with out worrying about having to maintain it all inside your installation. You can have them when they upload a photo using WordPress as existing, add a photo or add media buttons, that all goes to Amazon S3 and it's really seamless for our campus users. But I can sleep a little better at night knowing that everything is stored there, served from there, and I don't have to worry -- worry too much about it.

Jesse Lavery: Breadcrumb Nav XT, many CMS's do Breadcrumbs but what's cool about this is that this plugin lets you define all of the characteristics of it which is kind of unique to WordPress in my experience, at least. You can define the separators, you can define prefixes and suffixes, many, many customizable options that -- and it can be different things for post versus pages versus categories versus archives, so really powerful plugin.

So you can have people be editors which gives them control to create things that you wouldn't already have with like an author or contributor role but you can add an extra level of approval on top of that with that plugin.

Michael Richwalsky: This is the WPtouch plugin. It's a free plugin though they have a pro version but if you're not using this I would recommend you install this tonight. It's great because it automatically -- once you turn it on, do a little bit of configuring, gives you a really mobile friendly version of your site that you can do with post, pages, search, categories, really you get a full interface in there. And it looks sharp, you can control things like the icons here, this is a page, you can use a page icon. It's super simple. It handles images just fine. It really is makes mobile really nice.

Audience: What was that thing?

Michael Richwalsky: WPtouch is the name of the plugin. There's a free one and a paid version but the free one is awesome especially if you just want to try it out, super flexible.

And there's been a lot of interest today in mobile stuff, so this is an easy way at least to start down that pathway with one of these plugins. Again, following on the theme, the WordPress automatic backup, backups are good, backups are your friends. The more you have the merrier. The automatic backup plugin does exactly what it says; you tell it every night go and back up my stuff and send it to, in this case Amazon.

We've got some stories there so it keeps me -- it gives me five days worth of backups and I can pick one if I need to restore from it but I know that my backups are there and safe. And you can set a schedule if you want it to update daily, hourly, though that maybe overkill or weekly, you can control that and what bucket it goes into. It's one of those set-and-forget plugins which is great because I know that I'll always have a backup available on the schedule that I -- that I wanted it to have.

Audience: [00:14:05 Unintelligible]

Michael Richwalsky: I -- I think for that plugin it may be but there are different plugins that will do different things. There's a database backup plugin that will actually email you a copy of your database on a schedule you recommend. I don't know if that will back up say the cloud files or x-base or anything like that.

Audience: [00:14:27 Unintelligible]

Michael Richwalsky: Oh, there's a Dropbox, works awesome. In case you need, there's a Dropbox WordPress plugin that will do something similar here and put this in your Dropbox account if you use that, and if you don't, I would highly recommend it because it's just awesome service all the way around.

So and finally, the last thing you do to customize this for those of you that have worked in all different kinds of CMS is you know that you can have post types.

You can have maybe this is a news release post type or photo post type. Those things are very easy to do in WordPress and you can set them in via the functions or a plugin that will make this for you but we made a Mr. Potato Head function that's what we call a rotating graphics. So that's allowing our users to update new graphics on their site and it lives and behaves just like any of these other things that they're using; post pages, you can see they can see all of the ones that they have created or add a new one.

So the behavior for them, not a lot of learning there, because they are already using similar functionality in terms of see all the things that you're doing or add a new one. So that has been very easy for us to give users specific functionality that they need as they need it.

OK, show of hands. Who here has to maintain your LMS software? OK, pretty decent amount. How many of you have to use like a Blackboard, Moodle or Sakai, any of these?

OK. Go ahead. You can, believe it or not, do your entire LMS in WordPress which is pretty interesting. There is a lot of development right now in this. There's a project called ScholarPress and what they are doing is developing really a course measurements system that integrates in with BuddyPress, which we'll talk about in a s second, to give you a really full blown LMS with classes, rosters, you can get student's features like blogs, forums, files. You can turn this on and off. You can archive this. It's really super nice.

I think in having use the WebCT back in the day, Blackboard, Sakai, I think that the WordPress environment is user -- a little bit more user friendly because, you know, have you ever tried to use Blackboard which is hard to use and it's hard to manage.

So you can take some of that pain away from you to manage it or support it as well as your students and faculty who are using it, I'm all for that. There are a lot of schools who are really starting to use this and it looks just like, I mean, pretty similar to other services but this is an actual course. If you were taking Michael Steven's LAS 701 course, this is what you'd see. This is a course -- page for a course called Banned and Dangerous Art and it's adding student comments, student blogs are there, pretty much everything you do in your LMSs there.

Finally, one of the really very visible ones that you haven't checked out, you should is The City University of New York. Their academic comments is completely built on BuddyPress. So all of their courses, all of their activities going on inside WordPress for all of their courses in the university. If you just Google assuming you can find that.

People doing their magazines in WordPress, anybody? OK, good, a few amount. We just rolled out our magazine at John Carroll last week -- yes?

Audience: [00:18:16 Unintelligible]

Michael Richwalsky: All right, sure. Do you like that move? They'll take care of that. We launched our magazine last week in WordPress, super clean. Before we only really offered our users with an embedded PDF that you can put pages on which is easy for me to do but I don't think it gave people a really good user experience and certainly didn't engage them or keep them on the site or give them the ability to have discussions.

So we rolled that out into WordPress this year, worked with our magazine editor to get all the copy content in there including, I think, 70 pages of class notes and alumni notes in there.

Is that a little better for you back there to see?

Audience: [00:19:08 Unintelligible]

Michael Richwalsky: All right, awesome. As soon as he focuses there. What I like about doing this in WordPress is that you can get some really nice typography settings in there. If you see like the sidebars are really nice, we're doing tables very well. So it's just presenting that user data a little nicer. And after I set it up I didn't really have to do much with it. The magazine editor can be adding new content, new photos, videos, all the things that he wants to add into it.

Jesse Lavery: Next stop, Portals. We -- when Mike was at Allegheny before I was in Allegheny, he rolled out the My Allegheny portal and he's actually blatantly ripping off the idea, the things at John Carroll.

Michael Richwalsky: Oh, come on. That's not nice. Can you not say that when my boss is in the pack? Thank you.

Jesse Lavery: But, no, but this is cool. This is -- this is easily the highest traffic website at Allegheny. This I believe is the only way that most people know how to get to their email if clicking on that email link in the middle there. But this -- we use this to present news and events to students, to faculty. This is set as the homepage on every computer across campus. Things do go through an approval process so it's not just a total free-for-all.

And then also we have, just as an extra level to this, we have a daily email that goes out that just -- that is set up through mail chimp that pulls the RSS from the site and so daily summary email goes out to everyone on campus if they're not already reading the site.

So we're hitting them two ways with news and events.

Michael Richwalsky: And the My Allegheny is really the third or fourth iteration of an internal portal which started originally as a weekly email and probably years before that is a printed newsletter that you got weekly to an email, to a website that is actually built and movable type that we moved eventually to WordPress and then to a portal that really integrated all of those campus services including our Sakai installation, our banner, our datatel online version and all those kind of things.

I mentioned a little bit earlier about the LMS but you can do your social network in a box as well. And really very easy to do and this plugin is called BuddyPress. It's free and you pretty much install it and let it do its job.

There is really not a lot of customization in there and you get all the features that you would get in a lot of other social networks such as a Ning site. There's a lot of interest when Ning went pay-only in how we're going to get our content out of there or something that we can more better control. And you can do that with your BuddyPress installation as you get full control over it which means you can control the users, the features that are offered, ads or no ads, things like that, as well as a security, backing it up, making sure it scales and do everything that it needs to do.

The whole BuddyPress community is very passionate about this project. There's a lot of development going on, a lot of BuddyPress-specific themes and plugins that -- that adds some additional stuff to it. So this is a test of an online community for alumni. Ours is going away this year and we tried out a couple of different things to replace it with.

One of which is a BuddyPress installation -- to the next one -- so just like you would in an online community or a Ning site, we set up individual pages. So if you played football at John Carroll you can join this group and be asked to join this group. And a side of there you can connect with people, post messages, do everything that you could do in such like a Ning site, for example.

Individual users have profiles so that I can connect with Adam Palin who works at the University of UK and see his friends, send him a private message, see what groups he's involved, and connect with him and, you know, be his friend and collaborate with him in this environment. So it's a really easy way to do that.

So honestly, I'm not even lying when I say from zero to social network, I did it in about seven minutes. That's with the fresh WordPress install.

Now, I would have done it in five but I had to make that little JC UConnect logo in Photoshop, so it took me two extra minutes but I could have done it in five and have a fully working social network that I had control over. So if you like to try that we're going to have the slides at the end but you're more than welcome. I'll leave it up for a few days. If you want to see what BuddyPress is like log in to this, make an account, surf around, see how you'll like it, and leave it up for a few days after or so.

Jesse Lavery: Next stop, Job Boards. I swear to God when I went to college we had a job board that looked like that. It was awful. It was ridiculous. Instead of that we did things like this now. In Allegheny we used this for our own -- our HR office uses this for job openings on campus. Our alumni office uses it for volunteer opportunities, for people that want -- for alumnus that want to come back and participate in programs.

We do this with a premium theme called JobPress. Seventy-nine dollars which, in the grand scheme of things, is nothing. So you do have to pay for it but, come on, 79 bucks. They have you lifting and all these is done. Tons of customization in terms of categories, takes front end submissions, time stamps. If you decide -- if you're in some sort of situation where paid submissions are required that will do that. Of course we don't use it that way ourselves.

Classifieds actually uses the same system. Just a tweet system, we do -- we have this garage sale website internally. It's available only on campus. We have a limited front campus use at all but this is a free-for-all.

These people can post anything to -- and actually in this example, there's a cat, there's a concert that's coming up, there's a job opening at secretary's husbands workplace. It's just -- it's crazy. So when people submit the item, they see a preview, they hit submit, it says, you know, good job, congratulations, you can hit submit. It generates an email that comes to us and this is the only thing that we have to do, it sends an email to us, click through. By default, it's listed as a draft. We just go in there and just make sure there's no profanity or anything like that and approve it and it's good to go.

Michael Richwalsky: Before I start this one, is anybody happy with their event calendar on campus? Few people. Let me ask you this way, whose event calendar stinks?

All right, very good. You may be interested in this.

Jesse Lavery: So in comes something called GigPress which is not --

Audience: What's it called?

Jesse Lavery: GigPress. It's -- it's -- it was made specifically for events or for a touring artist of some description but it can be used for a general event calendar. It lets you manage artists, venues, and it's very easy to add a show once you have or you go in to find, you know, your artist or your program, just pick things from a dropdown with prices URLs for buying tickets and that kind of thing. It generates automatically go back here.

It does the dirty work of an iCal and an RSS feed for you which is awesome. So we've just started using this on campus ourselves. I think it's good for general events. I think it will be great for something like if you have a dedicated like theater company, like one group that does a lot of shows, it will be awesome for that since that's kind of more what it's made for but it's certainly very capable of -- for just being a general events.

Michael Richwalsky: And this one is free, right?

Audience: GigPress doesn't create a sort of a calendar widget or anything for WordPress. It just makes a list within the content area... trying to work with software for WordPress.

Jesse Lavery: I believe there is a widget. There is a sidebar widget component to it.

I haven't used that myself but -- but I'd be happy to look more into that and get back to you on it.

Michael Richwalsky: And GigPress as a plugin is free?

Jesse Lavery: Yes, GigPress is free. Yes.

Michael Richwalsky: OK.

Jesse Lavery: Bug and ticket tracking. This is -- there are many, many ticket tracking options, none of them are very friendly at least in my experience. I've tried a bunch, I don't particularly like any of them. There's a new one out for WordPress, a new theme called Quality Control. This is -- this is pretty slick and this is a theme that out-of-the-box handles milestones, different states for tickets, different statuses, different categories. This is from the front end --

Excuse me -- from the front end you have your entry screen, you can do code within the -- within the description. The drawback to this is you can't assign tickets. So it will be great if you're a one-man team, which I know there is a lot of one-man teams here, but since tickets are listed by creator which I -- supposedly this is something they're working on so that you can be able to assign tickets but for right now, it would be great for a one-man shop not necessarily if you have a larger team, but --

Michael Richwalsky: All right. Believe or not WordPress can help you write a book. You can -- there's a plugin that's being built called Anthologize, it's Anthologize.org. It's a free plugin right now. It's in pretty early alpha but it's pretty compelling especially if you work with a lot of faculty or maybe students who are blogging as a way to archive and catalogue this content.

You drop it in as a plugin, you activate it, when you get a nice little sidebar thing in your add-in menu. That lets you start to set up your project and set up your book. So I've added one to my blog and I've made a new project on my book called "Where It All Started" and once I have my book set up all I have to do is just drag a post or pages into it. So for the "Where It All Started" chapter of my book, I dragged over my most recent blog post from my blog and what it does is it then formats them, grabs images, texts, any formatting that I give it and really lays it out very nicely.

When it comes time to export that, you can assign a license such as a creative comments license or the license of your choice, give it some final information and then sign the export to get a dedication, some acknowledgements and then you can save it out in some interesting formats.

You can save it as a PDF. You can save it as an RTF file, HTML, and the one I think is interesting is the EPOV format. That's what a lot of your readers now iPads and Kindles will read that. So as a way to distribute it it's a very compelling plugin. This example I generated mine as a PDF. As you can see it made my table of contents as well as my chapters like a jumper on my book and then just laid out the post.

So this is my chapter "Where It All Started", here is my blog post, here is my text hyperlinks carry over, my images are in line, and really it was easy as drag and drop, publish, done. So if you need to at the end of a student blogging experience, at the end of a course and you have generated a lot of content, you want a permanent archive for that if you have a library or an archivist that's very specific about what they want, this is a great way to export that in a readable format, something that you can print off and have a book of or stored electronically as a way to do it.

This is a relatively new project that was built pretty quickly. They're still developing it but it's really pretty compelling to be able to generate that kind of content that easily.

Jesse Lavery: Other resources. And we were going to add links to this and we have not -- have not done it yet but that's all right.

Michael Richwalsky: You can Google em.

Jesse Lavery: So obviously, WordPress.org smashing magazine if none of you are familiar with Smashing Magazine, they published a ton of WordPress related tutorials, tips, just articles in general.

Michael Richwalsky: Six Revisions is another good one. That's another kind of design and web development blog. They really focused a ton on WordPress. Didn't include it here but there's another one. If you Google Binary Moon, that's a developer in UK. There's a ton of great post about WordPress as well as, you know, they developed plugins and themes.

And if you're going to do a multi-site setup like we have done, there's another site called WPMU DEV that is really for people that are developing in these multi-site environments like we're doing. And the really cool thing about kind of the multi-site in the MU is that all the things that we showed today you can have running from one multi-site install.

So the150 sites that Jesse is doing, the 30 or so sites that we're doing at Carroll, those are all running off one instance each of WordPress. So that's why this stuff really interests me because this do so many different things from blogs to content management to magazines and I'm only supporting one tool in my limited amount of time and really being a one-person shop. So it's really pretty compelling thing.

I put the slides up, feel free to go grab them. We'll leave the slides up so if you want to come up at the end and grab that URL but if you have questions or comments we'll take them in a second.

Our Twitter is there if you think of something after the fact or you have a really cool WordPress thing that we should know about that we can share, that would be awesome. So at this point, with a couple of minutes left before we can go and have some fun I'll take some questions. Yeah.

Audience: [00:35:25 Unintelligible]

Michael Richwalsky: There are. Depending on what uses. There's some that work with Active Directory if you use that. I don't know if there's like a... I don't know if that's available. Active Directory is one -- what are the other ones? We are actually doing our user management right inside WordPress. We're not using a single sign-on for now.

Audience: [00:35:52 Unintelligible]

Michael Richwalsky: Can you tweet that link? Roslin? Thank you. And she'll put that tag in there so that -- because I'm interested in that plugin, too. Yeah, Mike.

Mike: I just have to, one of the plugins I used in every single installation of Wordpress now...

Michael Richwalsky: OK. Yeah, if you could tweet that link that will be awesome.

Mike: Because it's kind of like the custom post types they have now...

Michael Richwalsky: Yeah.

Mike: But it really adds a lot of extra beef to them...

Michael Richwalsky: Cool. One thing -- one plugin that I put on everything that I do is WP Super Cache. It really handles automatic caching for all your content. That's especially important when you are getting to a site that has 140 multi-sites inside of it and they're doing, you know, three or 400,000 pages vis a month in their WordPress. So that kind of caching that you can do, takes the load off.

WordPress by default will hit your database quite a bit so if you can cache some of that content and WP Super Cache gives you various levels of caching, various times to live for that kind of content as well as you can preload your cache which is pretty interesting. That's definitely one worth learning from. Yeah?

Audience: [00:37:17 Unintelligible]

Michael Richwalsky: Yeah.

Audience: [00:37:21 Unintelligible]

Michael Richwalsky: Sure. For Amazon S3 you pay two things. You pay bandwidth in and out and then you pay storage cost. So I think for really you get a Gig for free from them of storage and transfer but otherwise, you're looking at about 10 cents a Gigabyte for storage. And I think 14 - 15 cents out per Gigabyte. Storage, yes. Yes. And it's all -- they give you pretty detailed records in Amazon site.

We've been using it, like I said, about a month for our 40 sites as well as a lot of other content. Our bills have been, I think, $3 and $4 for the first two months of -- of using it. But I'm getting, about, you know, super storage, I'm getting a ton of transfer from data centers around the country so people are getting stuff pretty quickly. It's really pretty amazing.

If I set up a site for international and I can specify in that plugin as well as in Amazon that I want my bucket, a file to actually live in Europe. So that's just really a mouse click. So if I'm doing a lot of work over there I can have it uploaded here and it's going to put it in the data center in Europe for me automatically and those users there will get that content super fast.

So it's aws.amazon.com, if you're not using them you should because it's really a life saver sometimes.

Audience: [00:38:57 Unintelligible]

Michael Richwalsky: Yeah, definitely. It's, yeah, it's a super service. There's one in the back.

Audience: You were using Wordpress as an MS, is there an app or a plugin that goes into it.

Michael Richwalsky: I don't know. Scholar -- if you look at ScholarPress I know that they just received a big grant to really ramp up their development and build that in. One of the subprojects are things like grade books and other kind of portfolio, things that people could use the LMS's need. So ScholarPress will dig in to that a little bit better than -- I remember seeing a plugin for that but I don't -- having not use it or not currently supporting it, I'm not sure. Yeah.

Audience: So you gathered on media, you're not hosting with them. Are you hosting in-house?

Michael Richwalsky: We -- our respective websites, actually hosted by Rackspace and -- but media content comes from Amazon.

We also use that to store things like style sheets and some Java scripts just for the speed because that is distributed. You can get that static stuff faster from them than you can through us. So hosted Rackspace, media at S3 that's kind of split up for both of the sites.

Audience: And you are happy with Rackspace.

Michael Richwalsky: Yes. Yes, very much so. We've been -- I set them up at Allegheny probably a year and a half ago and we've been Carroll there for four months, have had a really good experience. We alternately -- anybody from Rackspace here? No, good. Anybody from The Planet here? Good. We tried The Planet, it was awful. So just terrible customer service, terrible experience switched to Rackspace have been happy every since, so.

Audience: [00:40:47 Unintelligible]

Michael Richwalsky: The Planet? That's just my personal opinion. It does not indicate the opinion of John Carroll or Jesse Lavery or High Ad Web or Allegheny College or Duke University or whoever.

I didn't like my experience there. My experience at Rackspace has been very warm and fuzzy. And, yeah, being a small school, the small IT shop that's why we kind of out sourced that. The ability to call somebody at three in the morning and have my WordPress server reboot it is very nice and they will do it right away, so.

Any final questions before you all circle sevens on that evaluation sheet? No. All right, thank you very much. We put the order up here. Thank you very much. Enjoy the rest of you conference.