Were currently building our new site from scratch (using Sublime Text 2 (Mainly for the font rendering, it's so darn pretty on Ubuntu 12.10) to code and using the Inspector feature in Chrome is a godsend for choosing color values, setting spacing, etc). We started with using bootstrap to get the front-end going and now are working on building up our CMS. To make posts and stuff we have to go into phpmyadmin but in the end we will have a fully featured editor inside (paragraphs, image inserts, video inserts, the whole shebang). Our main emphasis on this is not primarily getting it done, but getting it done nicely and commenting properly so that we get that started as a habit for future, and so that newbies can jump in and know what each bit of code is doing.
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Originally Posted by ace94x
I agree with your mentors 100%
My mentors first wanted me to create a site using joomla or wordpress I told them no, probable a bad idea but the end result has been great, I am the only web developer on my team, I have created our website over the summer (still tweaking it) and I used 100% custom code, there are the few lines of code from google maps and from google analytics, but that is it, even the images were created by my using GIMP, my suggestion use Notepad++ it is perfect for creating websites from scratch, then use a free host like 000webhost for testing in a locked folder then once it is complete upload to your teams site, now because most sites vary like ours did you may have to change things, like I had to, but never just jump into it using a CMS or a WYSIWYG, I am working on a custom CMS now for my teams website (Menu based) hoping to work with all customs sites in the future. Once I finish it I will post it on chief delphi, I just started it so I am not far along though. the CMS will require you to already have a site created though, because custom sites are better than template sites.
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Something you might want to try is running a local copy of XAMP and throwing your site files into the htdocs folder. I find it easier to just save it and refresh the browser than wait for FTP. Albeit my internet is intermittent at times.
Also, for teams facing disk space restrictions with their host, try outsourcing your images to a resource like imgur. We have tons of images and it's a lot easier to just keep a database of the urls, original names, descriptions etc. and either just serve the image directly from imgur, or redirect it with our own script (at the expense of bandwidth).