February 5, 200917 yr Just putting the question out there to the experts on this. As a newbie, I'm trying to find out the scope of what it would take to build an attractive website for my football club, that is user-updateable. What processes are generally used to create/enable this feature? Is their a tutorial out there or anything similar?
February 5, 200917 yr It would really depend on how much of the site you would like to be updateable. You could use a very simple solution like cushycms or you could implement a cms like Wordpress, Expression Engine, Joomla!, Drupal etc Or you could create your own cms with just the features that you want. Apart from cushycms, you're going to need to work with a server-side language such as PHP and a database server such as MySQL. It really depends on how far you want to go.
February 5, 200917 yr Author It would really depend on how much of the site you would like to be updateable.You could use a very simple solution like cushycms or you could implement a cms like Wordpress, Expression Engine, Joomla!, Drupal etc Or you could create your own cms with just the features that you want. Apart from cushycms, you're going to need to work with a server-side language such as PHP and a database server such as MySQL. It really depends on how far you want to go. Thanks ElanMan. I struggled to Google this before, because I didn't know what to call it, that is how new I am, after a quick pm from Dizi I found this thread and posted, then googled it again. I think I'm on the right path now. I guess the site will have a news section on the home page, and several team pages that the coaches/managers of the individual teams will update each week. I wonder if it would be much of a step to have each update signed off by the club president or secretary before it becomes public?
February 5, 200917 yr I'm sure most systems will have the ability to create user groups that can post on specific pages all moderated by a site admin. http://mu.wordpress.org/ might be worth a look or bluedreamer's favourite Expression Engine
February 5, 200917 yr Author I'm sure most systems will have the ability to create user groups that can post on specific pages all moderated by a site admin.http://mu.wordpress.org/ might be worth a look or bluedreamer's favourite Expression Engine Cheers!
February 5, 200917 yr Author I just checked out the CushyCMS site... I had a look at the video of how it is done and it raises a question... Say, on the homepage of my site, I wanted to have news stories as the feature and as new ones come on, the old ones get pushed down the page. With what I saw on the CushyCMS site, that would mean they'd have to edit the news in the same input box on the Cushy site, more or less typing on the top of thje previous story. I don't know if that would be desirable would it? Any suggestions?
February 5, 200917 yr ... or bluedreamer's favourite Expression Engine Flattery will get you somewhere Expression Engine is designed to be multi author out of the box with no additional plugins or faffing about - you will need a "Personal" licence which will cost you $99. It will allow the site editors to authorise any content before it's published, and the "content" can be anything you want, articles, game results and you can relatively easily split everything up by sport, location and so on. EE has some pretty powerful features built in - for instance you might want to show a game results table for a league or team by year/season - all perfectly doable without plugins. No PHP necessary. As with all CMS's, EE does have a learning curve, but once you have that famous EE "lighbulb" moment you suddenly see a myriad of possibilities with it.
February 5, 200917 yr Author Flattery will get you somewhere Expression Engine is designed to be multi author out of the box with no additional plugins or faffing about - you will need a "Personal" licence which will cost you $99. It will allow the site editors to authorise any content before it's published, and the "content" can be anything you want, articles, game results and you can relatively easily split everything up by sport, location and so on. EE has some pretty powerful features built in - for instance you might want to show a game results table for a league or team by year/season - all perfectly doable without plugins. No PHP necessary. As with all CMS's, EE does have a learning curve, but once you have that famous EE "lighbulb" moment you suddenly see a myriad of possibilities with it. Thank you bluedreamer. So literally, you build your site and then the CMS can be 'tacked on top?' I like it.
July 21, 200917 yr Flattery will get you somewhere Expression Engine is designed to be multi author out of the box with no additional plugins or faffing about - you will need a "Personal" licence which will cost you $99. It will allow the site editors to authorise any content before it's published, and the "content" can be anything you want, articles, game results and you can relatively easily split everything up by sport, location and so on. EE has some pretty powerful features built in - for instance you might want to show a game results table for a league or team by year/season - all perfectly doable without plugins. No PHP necessary. As with all CMS's, EE does have a learning curve, but once you have that famous EE "lighbulb" moment you suddenly see a myriad of possibilities with it. BlueDreamer, I've got to build a site for an entire league consisting of around 10 divisions, each with approx 10 teams in. The site needs to be maintained by my client with regards to adding fixtures, venue and results information etc. Ideally, I'd like the League Tables to be generated automatically from the results entered. Do you know whether or not EE can accomplish this task out of the box? TIA Lee
July 21, 200917 yr EE can easily handle that sort of content, but it could take a lot of planning depending how complex the data is. For example... Would you want to be able to browse by division and/or season and/or by team? Would you want to be able to filter results based on say team, location, division, season? Would you want to see a teams complete league history? How would you want to handle previous seasons data? Do you need the ability to add match reports for any fixture?
July 21, 200917 yr EE can easily handle that sort of content, but it could take a lot of planning depending how complex the data is. For example... Would you want to be able to browse by division and/or season and/or by team? Would you want to be able to filter results based on say team, location, division, season? Would you want to see a teams complete league history? How would you want to handle previous seasons data? Do you need the ability to add match reports for any fixture? Thanks for the reply, Pretty much all of the above! :-) I'd have to purchase the $299 edition, of course......time to read through the user guides and tutorials, I guess!
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