Hi there,

 

I currently study at UWS Paisley in Scotland. I'm on my 4th year (Honours Degree) doing Mobile & Web Development.

 

My project for the whole year is to build a responsive website based on selling 4 categories of pets: rodents (rats, mice, guinea pigs), reptiles (snakes, iguanas and so on), Cats, and Dogs.

 

tl;dr - What's the best way to go about this?

 

 

 

For this website, someone who wishes to sell their pet will have to sign upto the website. After doing so, they can post an ad. The ad will have a lot of informaiton and store it on a mysql database using mysql and pdo.

Would I be better designing the website myself, just using photoshop and then coding it on sublime 3, or would it be better to use some sort of CMS?

 

I can do it coding manually, and I could have a ?ad=2598230952 or something which is easy enough, but I'm unsure of the rest. It's literally going to be similar to gumtree, where someone can post an ad, other people can view it, and you can sign in to reply to the ad etc.

 

I just need to know what the best way to do this is.

 

Thanks

Why would you be using sublime or a CMS? You should be using them together. you can write php in sublime which is what I imagine a cms of your choice would be coded in, or you could build your own backend specifically for this task. Ruby on Rails would also be something that could serve well as a backend platform for this, or even Node.js + MongoDB which has advantages over a php / ruby system.

sublime 3.. the text editor

I don't know ruby or node.js or anything. My project is specifically php, mysql, jquery etc.