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Originally Posted by jonathan lall
I wouldn't suggest you go that way if your goal is to bring an award home (which it is), because such sites often have little creative effort on the part of students, and when they actually do, FIRST judges don't notice it. Let's think seriously and honestly about it. Would you want to enter in a site that is basically already made for you, for which you've changed the words and the site template? If the answer is yes, let me tell you, you're not going to get an award, even if you have all the silly rubric criteria down. I think FIRST is right to frown on these pre-mades as competition websites aimed to exemplify a team and its members' technical skill. That is the reason the Website Award exists, and I think judges have thus far done a good job of upholding it. In the end it's your choice. Sites that use portal software have won in the past, but don't say you weren't warned if you don't!
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I know this is an old post i just happened to be exploring... but i have to disagree once again. While yes a CMS makes it easier to manage say content. You still spend LOTS + TONS of time working on the site. Take my teams website. It uses mambo. But i have spent forever modifying, making things work right, adding special stuff, managing it, modifying images, editing code, i could go on and on.
I think that while building a site form the ground up and coding it all yourself is great. I think you can learn a lot more from learning how to modify, fix, add, etc. by using a CMS.
I also think that using a CMS or a template is more of a real world thing these days than building a site form nothing. I mean think about it, do you really think places hard code everything... I think they would have some sort of CMS (GUI) way of editing stuff.
But yes i DO believe you should know the code HTML, PHP, Java script, etc. before using a CMS.
Thats my opinion, just throwing it out there, if someone wants to catch it and form it into there own opinion thats fine, otherwise it can land in a little puddle, lol.