New to Alfresco - have a few questions

[oneworld95]

Hi. I'm new to Alfresco and had a few questions:
- Is there a free version of Alfresco for state universities to use? Do we have to display a logo to use this free version?
- I'm converting the following design to CMS and wondered how the different parts of the page would be done: http://bit.ly/9hhDY5
- Do we create "modules" as in some other CMSs for this sort of thing?

Thank you 

[mrogers]

The Community version is free.   No you don't have to display the Alfresco logo.

How the page is done is up to you!  Rather a broad statement …   Alfresco provides a broad set of content management services that you can mix and match to use with an architecture of your choosing.   Some sites will have their own front end and use Alfresco for the "content management" part.   For example using Alfresco to approve and erving the images behind the "thank you gifts".   Equally you if you look at Alfresco share you can see examples of the "news headlines".     I you look at Alfresco's web quick start there are examples of managing the layout and content of the web site through some of the content services of Alfresco.

Yes you can create modules called AMPs in the Alfresco world.    It rather depends on how much configuration you do as to how you package it up.

[oneworld95]

Thanks, mrogers. That's very useful. Is it difficult to create AMPs if you've done Java before?