Joomla CMT website

[richie]

Anyone recommend any other system or is Joomla the way to go?

It seems quite complicated for making a 15 page site... But is a one click install to at least get it running, now that is easy...

 

[PaulXC]

Anyone recommend any other system or is Joomla the way to go?

It seems quite complicated for making a 15 page site... But is a one click install to at least get it running, now that is easy...

Depends on the functionality you need but Wordpress is far easier to get your head round I find. I spent weeks trying figure Joomla but just a couple of days to get results with Wordpress.


1000's of templates out there. Just an example of some of the paid for templates at http://www.elegantthemes.com/ or freebies at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/.

Its not just a blogging platform - you can build rather nice websites with it as well.

Paul

 

[Straydog]

Richie
I used to do alot of these for Clan sites all over the place.
Look at E107, which is very easy, I used to use LDU which was great but it went off the GNU licensing and is now paid for, and has been rewritten.

Wordpress is ok, not that easy for a beginner, look up "opensource cms" and have a look through for the best one that suits your needs.
Depending on your need for the site, I am sure you will find one to suit.

Availability of plugins themes and ease to edit/change the theme are important factors.
Most you will find are in written in php, not a hard language to learn, quite simply in fact.

All in all you, you will need a ISP (provider) that gives you php, mysql database and a good reange of optionsforgraphics which shoudl be standard these days..

Drop me a line if you need help.

DC

 

[richie]

I can do a one click install of any of these, I don't necessarily need the easiest one as I half know what I am doing, but after a few hours with Joomla it seems a trifle OTT for my initial needs of about 20 pages...

I am doing a small job for a mate of mine and don't really mind how much time it takes, I use Dreamweaver and Flash up till now but he wants CMT...

 

[stolzy]

FWIW I use RapidWeaver for my own sites and those of friends and family, seems fine for smallish website, not ideal for forums and where the content changes frequently.

 

[Redboots]

Mines done in Textpattern - similar to Wordpress.
Like the others, there are plenty of templates and plugins available.

Suck one or two and see.

Two templates (modified) I have used:
Old version New version

John

 

[richie]

Richie
I used to do alot of these for Clan sites all over the place.
Look at E107, which is very easy, I used to use LDU which was great but it went off the GNU licensing and is now paid for, and has been rewritten.

Wordpress is ok, not that easy for a beginner, look up "opensource cms" and have a look through for the best one that suits your needs.
Depending on your need for the site, I am sure you will find one to suit.

Availability of plugins themes and ease to edit/change the theme are important factors.
Most you will find are in written in php, not a hard language to learn, quite simply in fact.

All in all you, you will need a ISP (provider) that gives you php, mysql database and a good reange of optionsforgraphics which shoudl be standard these days..

Drop me a line if you need help.

DC

An hour and fifty minutes later on.... www.muchevache.com I am just messing about btw... Seems easy enough, but have not figured out where to change the "tip" message for each button...

 

[Straydog]

Skin dependant. look around for a couple of other skins and see.

You shoudl find it in css or template files.

 

[richie]

Now used three

www.irishgrass.com nowt to do with grass BTW which is cms made simple

www.muchevache.com something about hidden cows e107_

and another... Joomla

ignore the content I was just looking at how to do it. Ta for the tips...

They all seem to have their good and bad points... I reckon it is actually easier to learn how to make your own web site with DW or Flash...