Thanks All,
Really myself and my manager are gathering information around CMS solutions, at the moment we are going into meetings to discuss replacing our Intranet and Internet sites with a new more modern solution, whilst moving to a more industry (and easy to use) CMS. our current Corporate website is: http://www.stewartslaw.com feel free to have a browse. so really it's not what we want to do with the site but we really need more information avbout the solutions. All the advise we have had so far regarding wordpress is great, we both had assumed that it was just a blogging website! clearly it is more than that!
Steve
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From: "Stewart Robertson" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [Peterboro] Web expert needed
Lots of great advice and as always there's not a clear cut answer.
My question is, what do you want to do with the site? Have some static pages and post blogs? Community involvement? Forums? Support? Ecommerce?
Having read a lot about the different solutions, I think the key is to identify what you want from the solution now and in the near future.
On 26 Jun 2014 15:32, "Johnathon Tinsley" <[email protected]> wrote:
_______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboroWordPress is now running an estimated 22.5% of all websites, and 60.3% of those using known CMSs.
It's popular for a reason, it's really, really, insanely flexible. You can make pretty much any type of site from it, it's days as just being a blogging platform are long gone.
A *lot* of webdesign houses are swapping to it, and a lot are being started. It's a lot of hassle (and can be expensive) to get a good one. My biggest tip would be to turn the DEBUG mode on, that's just essential whilst developing.
If you're looking for a good design/dev team, Code For the People are awesome, I've worked with them before.
But, there's tonns of free off the shelf plugins & themes for you to use. If you can, keep your number of plugins below 10.
On 2014-06-26 14:59, Tony Cowderoy wrote:Hi Steve
I'm not an expert on this and I suspect some other people on this
list know a lot more about it. However, FWIW, my company site,
www.mml-net.com [2], is running on Joomla. I had the graphics designed
professionally, built the template myself by tweaking one of the
standard ones (mostly changes to the CSS) and other members of our
team wrote most of the content.
I built an earlier site on Drupal when Joomla was still in the
process of forking from Mambo and it wasn't clear which, if either,
would survive.
I've played around with Wordpress and it is quite a lot less
complicated than Joomla. That cuts two ways. It's easier to do simple
stuff in Wordpress but I think it's harder to do more complicated
things.
If you've got the time, the simple answer is to try them out.
Kind regards
Tony Cowderoy
On 26/06/2014 13:58, Steve Harker wrote:
Hi guys,
I need some advise on websites. In particular cms solutions.
A but if background. The firm I work at are dumping our current web
development firm and their custom cms solution. So we are
undertaking a review of developers and cms solutions. We keep
getting told go open source ( nice) and keep getting recommended
WordPress
Could anyone offer up advise? Preferably independent advice?
Thanks
Steve
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