Re: Question on a Basic Website for My Uncle's Business

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,

I'd start with Wordpress or Joomla, and then integrate your applications 
later.  What I have done is left the applications stand on their own, 
with links from inside the CMS, thus avoiding the integration issues 
with the CMS.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 7/7/2011 4:15 PM, Mike Wills wrote:
> Okay, this isn't "400 related", but am looking for other web experts
> opinions.
>
> My uncle wants a website for his tractor repair business. In all honestly, a
> couple HTML pages and it could be written and done. However, me being me, I
> want to plan for the long-run. Would it be worth me taking a bit more time
> and create it in WordPress pages so it would be easy to make changes (maybe
> even have him make the changes) or would you keep it simple and just do
> basic HTML pages and I would have to make any changes he would want in the
> future.
>
> I am leaning towards a core PHP framework in HTML5 (to keep design away from
> content) and basically keep most everything static. But like I said, I can
> see the benefit of a CMS.
>
> What would you do?
>
> --
> Mike Wills
> http://mikewills.me