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

[Joe]

Mike Little wrote:
> 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
What about Drupal or Joomla or something?

Joe

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