Best "professional" "WEB site" tool out there...

[Eric Cope]

hire/barter with a designer?

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net>wrote:

> From: keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>
> > --- On Tue, 5/19/09, JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com> wrote:
> >>> To make a professional looking WEB site with minimum effort
> >>> and maximum flexibility.
> >>> A (sort of) knowledgeable person kick-starts the site and
> >>> then hands maintenance and minor upgrades to monkeys.
>
> If this is how you do it, it'll eventually look like the whole
> thing was put together by monkeys.  Also, the requirements
> given are kind of sparse.  How frequently will this be updated?
> How many people are doing the updating?  What's the purpose of
> the site?  Details Count, and you've provided minimal info here.
>
> >> Joomla, Drupal
>
> Drupal really hits the DB hard.  How much traffic is this thing
> going to get?
>
> > WordPress allows one to drop a template into a directory and
> > go into the control panel and activate it.  WordPress allows
> > for plugins and they work the same way as templates, just drop
> > in the right directory and activate
>
> wordpress works (heck, I use it), but the themes available may
> have odd warts in them.  It might not work as well as you want
> if you have a ton of authors.  There are spamming bastards out
> there who inject crap into the comments section of any wordpress
> site they find, so you have to deal with that as well.  There
> are multiple ways to do that, of course.
>
> > There is a learning curve with all of these.
>
> Yep.
>
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