From quanta Mon Jun 26 22:30:29 2006 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?B=F8rge_Holen?= Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:30:29 +0000 To: quanta Subject: Re: [Quanta] Prefered method of setting up a site Message-Id: <200606270030.29997.borge () arivene ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=quanta&m=115136128316411 On Monday 26 June 2006 14:06, Brandon Sussman wrote: > | Does anyone have a opinion or a pro/con list on how to set up a site > | with many pages? > > If the site is very trivial and you will not be making many changes > (content, appearance, anything, use templates. tbs is a very good > templating engine. If it will not do what you need, you should think very > hard about what you need. > > However, scratch-built sites are not really the best use of your skills. > > For anything more than a couple of pages, use a Content Management System. > > Joomla, phpWebsite, MDPro, xaraya are all possibilities. There are many, > many more. The trick is to avoid spending weeks evaluating them all. Find > sites you like or ones that do what you need to build - figure out which > CMS they use. > > Some are optimized for particular types of sites. All have significant > layout flexibility. > > You will need to learn how each builds it's site appearance templates. > This is a significant effort so try to decide which package maps your > intended client(s). > > Once you have mastered the templating of your CMS, implementing new sites > becomes trivial, allowing concentration on the content, which is much more > important. > > IMO, is more important to learn one CMS well than waste time figuring out > which is best. A very good idea, but does not actually answer my questions about how page layout should appear from the brower kind of view. Børge > > > _______________________________________________ > Quanta mailing list > Quanta@mail.kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/quanta _______________________________________________ Quanta mailing list Quanta@mail.kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/quanta