Re: what to use for my web site

Dave, first let me compliment you for taking the initiative to learn Web technologies by your own dabbling. I'm not an expert with CMS systems, but it sounds like they may be the logical next step for you. One exception might be if you were commissioned to develop broadly scoped business applications. If that were the case, it would be better to have everything running under just one user profile, authority settings, and so forth. In other words, you might need a portal. CMS systems have a reputation for performing poorly. But it sounds like the scope of your project is limited to a traditional web site, so a CMS sounds logical to me.

-Nathan

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From: Dave <dfx1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 3:36 PM
Subject: [WEB400] what to use for my web site

Hi everyone,  I hope this question isn't stupid!

I'm not a web programmer (yet) but trying hard. I have a simple site
that I created with php4 and mysql. I rewrote it in php5, I rewrote it
again with mysql to xml then converted with xsl. I rewrote it again in
Java. All for the pleasure(!) of learning new stuff. I've dabbled with
Joomla! and quite a bit more with Drupal. I read that a large
percentage of sites were written with Wordpress so I looked briefly at
that.

I met someone who wants to pay me to do a website. It seems to me that
either I should use a content management system or use a php or java
solution, but using a framework. I don't yet have any experience of
frameworks. Now here's my  question : having seen what one can do with
Drupal, what are the reasons for NOT using a CMS?

I would like to use Wordpress for the new site,  simply for the reason
that it is far more widely used if the statistics are right.
Curiously, I have a filter on CMS on a site proposing contracts and
there are often requirements for Drupal developpers but I've yet to
see one for Joomla! or Wordpress. My own problem with learning to use
a CMS was that it was preventing me from learning PHP!

Any thoughts, advice would be great, thanks.