Hi everyone,

 

Im very new to the whole CMS thing, ive been looking at various tutorials to create my own for the past few days but a lot of them dont actually work or are incomplete which is quite annoying.

I was only looking to create my own because I wanted to make a website where the client can add content to the website without having to open the html/php files to insert the body text or whatever. I havent really used Joomla or WordPress before but a lot of the stuff isnt really relevant like the comments, trackbacks, etc. the client just wants to create new pages easily (which I will style using CSS) and be able to just simply enter the content of the page.

 

Ive given up on making my own CMS and am now looking into porting a website design to WordPress or Joomla, whichever one is easier?

 

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Depends on what your customer wants, eventually, and how computer literate s/he is.

My first reaction is to say, go with wordpress. You can remove and configure the things you don't need.

Joomla is a different kettle of fish altogether (you don't create pages, you create articles, that hangs off defined classes, and hence go with menues).

At the minute the person uses Joomla but I wouldntve known it until I viewed the source code. It looks like a normal functioning website, he seems to manage adding things just fine though. I remember a while ago I looked at creating a theme for Joomla but it was quite daunting at the time, although then I was less experienced. I like WordPress a lot more, never made a theme for it though, I cant imagine its that hard but whats the best way to approach it? Take a look at themes already made and edit the code so it looks how I want it? Or make it from scratch? Or maybe some other way?

If your customer already uses joomla, then figure out how large/flexible the site needs to be. If he is used to the joomla article-category-thing, then the constraints of wordpress might be frustrating.

Having said that, you can do fine things in wordpress, and wp is good for several contributors on different levels.

 

I find it a little hard to reccomend one over the other, as I don't know the basic need for the site.

 

Making a wordpress template is pretty straightforward. Start with a solid, simple one (some of them have confusing and/or pointless code) and alter that. Alternatively, if you're good at html and css, go with sandbox, and go mad.