PHP Nuke

[briholton]

PHP Nuke and other similar portal systems are not 2 minute websites, nor are they website wizards. Our team has put in over 100 hours of website development and yes, we used a portal system as our base. It probably would have been easier to do it from scratch, like we did last year, receiving our regional's best website award, but then we would not have had the experience of using a portal system and finding its limitations - and learning how to extend them.

Quite frankly, if you were a professional website developer, you would probably not use vi/unix. You would, if wise, use the best tools you could get to do the job in the most efficient manner. If vi works for what you do, good for you, for me, it would be horribly limiting. What works for one person, might not work for others.

To extend your learning, you might want to try doing a site using php Nuke or similar systems. It's really nice to see how others do things, and hacking the code to make it do what you want is quite educational.

BTW, i would love to see your site. Can you post the link?

Originally Posted by Noam Of Doom

but why would people rather have a 2 minute website and actually learn and experience something from the whole business of building a website?

when i volunteered to be the Webmaster of our team, i knew very little HTML and stuff, through trying and experimenting i learned the works, i didn't retreat to a website wizard, which is by the way, lame...

building a site with VI in Unix is tru... anything else is for failures