Lots of great advice and as always there's not a clear cut answer. My question is, what do you want to do with the site? Have some static pages and post blogs? Community involvement? Forums? Support? Ecommerce?
Having read a lot about the different solutions, I think the key is to identify what you want from the solution now and in the near future. On 26 Jun 2014 15:32, "Johnathon Tinsley" <johnat...@positive-internet.com> wrote: > WordPress is now running an estimated 22.5% of all websites, and 60.3% of > those using known CMSs. > > It's popular for a reason, it's really, really, insanely flexible. You can > make pretty much any type of site from it, it's days as just being a > blogging platform are long gone. > > A *lot* of webdesign houses are swapping to it, and a lot are being > started. It's a lot of hassle (and can be expensive) to get a good one. My > biggest tip would be to turn the DEBUG mode on, that's just essential > whilst developing. > > If you're looking for a good design/dev team, Code For the People are > awesome, I've worked with them before. > > But, there's tonns of free off the shelf plugins & themes for you to use. > If you can, keep your number of plugins below 10. > > > > On 2014-06-26 14:59, Tony Cowderoy wrote: > >> Hi Steve >> >> I'm not an expert on this and I suspect some other people on this >> list know a lot more about it. However, FWIW, my company site, >> www.mml-net.com [2], is running on Joomla. I had the graphics designed >> professionally, built the template myself by tweaking one of the >> standard ones (mostly changes to the CSS) and other members of our >> team wrote most of the content. >> >> I built an earlier site on Drupal when Joomla was still in the >> process of forking from Mambo and it wasn't clear which, if either, >> would survive. >> >> I've played around with Wordpress and it is quite a lot less >> complicated than Joomla. That cuts two ways. It's easier to do simple >> stuff in Wordpress but I think it's harder to do more complicated >> things. >> >> If you've got the time, the simple answer is to try them out. >> >> Kind regards >> >> Tony Cowderoy >> >> On 26/06/2014 13:58, Steve Harker wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >>> >>> I need some advise on websites. In particular cms solutions. >>> >>> A but if background. The firm I work at are dumping our current web >>> development firm and their custom cms solution. So we are >>> undertaking a review of developers and cms solutions. We keep >>> getting told go open source ( nice) and keep getting recommended >>> WordPress >>> >>> Could anyone offer up advise? Preferably independent advice? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Steve >>> -- >>> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my >>> brevity. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Peterboro mailing list >>> Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk >>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro [1] >>> >> >> >> >> Links: >> ------ >> [1] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro >> [2] http://www.mml-net.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Peterboro mailing list >> Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk >> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro >> > > -- > All postal correspondence to: > The Positive Internet Company, 24 Ganton Street, London. W1F 7QY > > *Follow us on Twitter* @posipeople > > The Positive Internet Company Limited is registered in England and Wales. > Registered company number: 3673639. VAT no: 726 7072 28. > Registered office: Northside House, Mount Pleasant, Barnet, Herts, EN4 9EE. > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro >
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