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Unread 26-12-2012, 17:44
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Re: How Do You Make Your Website?

CHS Robotics currently uses a Wordpress site with a couple MediaWiki applications hiding in some subdirectories. We tried writing our own CMS earlier, but found it hard to maintain (webmasters keep graduating and going away). Wordpress is nice because it's maintained by someone whose job is to maintain Wordpress for a very long time, but it's hard to integrate it with some of the other applications we have and want. While I agree with some of the other mentors in that the students should understand what's going on, a full featured and modular CMS isn't a simple program to understand and maintain. Kudos to the teams that do make their sites from scratch an maintain it for more than four years!