Re: [Dfey-nw-discuss] Website - www.dfey.org

[Mike Little]

2009/7/27 Robert Leverington <address@hidden>:
> On 2009-07-27, Tim Dobson wrote:
>> Concept One:
>> Static front page. Blog for announcements, meeting announcements etc,
>>
>> Concept Two:
>> No dynamic content - Static simplistic homepage with several links to
>> simplistic pages off from it. Modelled on in concept, if not in
>> implementation.
>
> My personal opinion would be to use the latter, I don't think we'd have
> enough regular updates for a blog and in any case it would probably just
> go stale.  Furthermore an entirely static site will encourage discussion
> about content.  Announcements could simply be listed on a page and
> removed when they expire, or something of that nature.
>
> Ideally all pages would use the same template though, otherwise it would
> be far from professional.
>

I feel I really need to pipe up now. For either option the answer is WordPress.

5 minute install (15 if it's your first time),
does 'static' pages,
doesn't need to do blog (,but can when you are ready)
Search engine friendly
Valid xhtml output
thousands of off the shelf templates to choose from
easy contact form,
can pull in external news to keep if fresh
etc ,etc
100% open source (GPL 2), of course

* Find a simple template at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ that
you like -- don't spend too long over it, it takes 10 minutes to
change it to something else if you don't like it. --
* point me at the high res copy of the logo
* find some copy for the first few pages
* and I'll set it up for you some time in the next few days.

Go!



Mike
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Mike Little
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