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[dqmot17]

Originally Posted by OScubed

Do everyone a favor and spend the year converting the site to an open source and free content management platform like Joomla, DotNetNuke, wordpress, etc. The days of hand coding pages from scratch ended years ago. Today's websites are about concentrating on the content, and using html/css to do an overall layout and design ONCE not once per page.

Furthermore if you get a good CMS you can delegate content updates to team leaders, and preview all updates prior to publishing them publicly. You can add functionality by purchasing inexpensive modules (in addition to the dozens of free ones you get with the package).

I'm not saying don't learn CSS/HTML/Javascript - I'm saying don't reinvent the wheel by hand coding things that are already provided to you in a development platform - spend your precious software development time on really COOL stuff, and make updating your content easy and delegatable. That's what company's are doing today - and what a good webmaster should be pushing their team towards.

I decided to go to DotNetNuke this year, and it was a big time saver. Having our previous website deleted, we had to build it from the ground up and no hand coding saved LOTS of time. Now, all i have to teach is the settings of the site and how it works (database content generation). I agree that CMS is the way to go.