Website Help

[Danny Diaz]

Originally Posted by Zholl

If I remember correctly, there are several teams using Joomla, Drupal, and Wordpress, and I think there are at least a couple using DotNetNuke. As far as putting up content goes, they're relatively simple to use, however customizing can be a bit more complicated, especially if you don't have anyone familiar with the HTML or PHP languages.

418's website is built using Joomla, and we paid a couple bucks for the template (since I had no time to design one myself). It was easier to build than one would think, and we didn't need to know anything about CSS or HTML or PHP. It's nice to have a main website that ANYONE can edit/modify with ease. We got most of the modules built in Joomla for us (free on the web, just look around for them), and the only one that we had to customize was the countdown clock (and Jumi is a wonderful tool to build custom modules using PHP within Joomla when you get to that point).

Anyway, the point is that it's great to have something that lasts - even when your website programmer graduates or leaves without teaching a new group how to do things. We had a big problem of having to redesign websites because nobody knew how they worked. Now we have a framework that anyone can maintain (especially the non-programmers).

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-Danny