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Re: Web Design Advice

s M i l e Tuesday, 16 February 2010 16:12

J J <(Address removed)> said:

Papa Bendy <(Address removed)> said:

I'm trying to set up a "whats on" listings type portal and not sure the
best way to handle the CMS. I can do it manually, using some fairly
basic ASP/HTML and to be honest, that would satisfy most of my needs.

That said everything seems to Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla nowadays and
part of this excersise to update some skills. I've been fannying around
with Wordpress the last few days and while some functionality is
excellent, a lot of what I'm wanting it to do is frustrating me. I know
shag all php so hacks and workarounds are not going to happen.

The question is should I persevere with Wordpress and keep looking at
forums, plug ins etc or just sack it all off and get it done in ASP?

I'd go with Wordpress and More Fields plugin
http://labs.dagensskiva.com/plugins/more-fields/

'It probably depends a bit exactly what you needs the website to do. For example, if you just want a few pages of text and images up then Drupal is going to be overkill and more complex than you need.

If it's a blog-like thing that you want then WordPress is extremely good. It's also good at doing very simple websites with a news module, for example.

Another good option would be CMS Made Simple (http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/). Which is a little less restrictive but also pretty simple.

If the ony choice is Textpattern or Drupal, and you just wants a simple brochure-type site, then I'd recommend Textpattern.'

I don't actually know anything about all this, but this answer was posted elsewhere in response to a very similar question. I hope it helps.