Hi there,

Sorry if this is in the wrong place. New to this website and keen to get inspired by you all..

Im on my 3rd year of a design course majoring in webdesign I know how to code (but not very well) i just love designing..

I want to code a website I have currently designed (still got abit more to do) but once iv done all that I want to implement a CMS.

How do I go about it? Do I find a CMS and then code my website into the CMS? if so how? any tutorials?

whats a good CMS? I am clueless about CMS and wish to learn more about it.

http://drupal.org/
http://www.joomla.org/

Both are free. There is documentation about and source for downloading.

I am by no means an expert, but I've made a site using wordpress for a cms and found it to be very easy to install.

And I have a completely different opinion. All the stuff mentioned and all that you will find are bloated, exploitable pigs. Write your own and keep your code to yourself.

That way you will have a safe secure site.

Originally Posted by colbyt

And I have a completely different opinion. All the stuff mentioned and all that you will find are bloated, exploitable pigs. Write your own and keep your code to yourself.

That way you will have a safe secure site.

Definitely agree with the 'bloated' comment IF this is something for a course or for yourself (hobby) BUT if you're doing some work or a serious project then you might want to start on Wordpress. WP is very easy to customise.

joomla is excellent and powerful but an overkill if you're after simple solutions

Magento... you'll probably go through 3 keyboards, 1 mouse and 2 LCD monitors.

" Magento... you'll probably go through 3 keyboards, 1 mouse and 2 LCD monitors."

And a Partridge in a Pear Tree.

Sorry.....could not resist that one..........

We are using wordpress it would be very useful to handle.

Originally Posted by inzid

Hi there,

Sorry if this is in the wrong place. New to this website and keen to get inspired by you all..

Im on my 3rd year of a design course majoring in webdesign I know how to code (but not very well) i just love designing..

I want to code a website I have currently designed (still got abit more to do) but once iv done all that I want to implement a CMS.

How do I go about it? Do I find a CMS and then code my website into the CMS? if so how? any tutorials?

whats a good CMS? I am clueless about CMS and wish to learn more about it.

I really like the wordpress platform and have espoused it benefits to a couple of friends. This will be a good resource for the flexibility that you can get using wordpress. Your site works really well, and you would never know it was a wordpress site.

All platforms above are good but I would like to recommend my own CMS. There is no need to download and install, just an instant setup procedure. I also believe it has an easier learning curve. So perfect for the beginner.

Visit http://php.opensourcecms.com/ and they have a demo for all CMS. Try the demo, compare the features and choose what you want.

"Joomla" and "Easy to use" do not usually belong together

Just choose your CMS first then go for designing it. There are many tutorials about wordpress, drupal, etc.

Where most CMS are concerned you will probably want to check out MySQL first.

I used to use joomla and its not too complex, but I have switched to dotnetnuke (.net free cms) i found it to be more secure and more powerfull But i am sure some people will disagree with me

thanks guys

oh.. and for wordpress. how does the basics go for website design and using their cms?

do you cut up your design from photoshop.. completely code it in dreamweaver or whatever and make it work.. then find a similar template for wordpress and replace code and images?