Website desing for a dummies!

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zaber

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Gents,

We need a website for our club and I have zero website design capabilities/experience. However, I would like to take this opportunity to educate myself in the process.

The website must be able to do the follwoing:

*Display photos
*Display videos (not as necessary)
*Provide general information
*We must be able to update it weekly, if not daily.

Any advice on where to start for a complete novice such as myself please? Any input/feedback will be more than I know at this stage:eek:
 
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I would suggest doing something in Joomla.
If you sign up with a hosting company that has Cpanel and Fantastico delux, you can even do an autoinstall. (I use JCW Hosting). Joomla comes with a basic template that you could just customise to suit your needs. It has more functionality than you would possibly need.

RE video, it chews bandwith, so if you need to post video, host it on youtube and just post a link to it on your site. That way you dont pay for the bandwidth.

Also since Joomla is Opensource (and free), you can find a huge ammount of tutorials for it onlne, if you cant figure something out yourself. Also if youre stuck with something I would be happy to help (if I can)
 
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A couple of other things:

With Joomla your members would have usernames and passwords, you could give certain people permission to add content, such as Photo's, articles ect.
 
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Madman88 said:
I would suggest doing something in Joomla.
If you sign up with a hosting company that has Cpanel and Fantastico delux, you can even do an autoinstall. (I use JCW Hosting). Joomla comes with a basic template that you could just customise to suit your needs. It has more functionality than you would possibly need.

RE video, it chews bandwith, so if you need to post video, host it on youtube and just post a link to it on your site. That way you dont pay for the bandwidth.

Also since Joomla is Opensource (and free), you can find a huge ammount of tutorials for it onlne, if you cant figure something out yourself. Also if youre stuck with something I would be happy to help (if I can)
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Madman88!

Thank you for the info and the willingness to help, I appreciate it a lot. It is going to be a good learning experience thats for sure. I will keep you updated with the progress me make.

Cheers!
 
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Madman88 said:
A couple of other things:

With Joomla your members would have usernames and passwords, you could give certain people permission to add content, such as Photo's, articles ect.
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Sounds exactly what the doctor ordered.
 
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zaber said:
Madman88!

Thank you for the info and the willingness to help, I appreciate it a lot. It is going to be a good learning experience thats for sure. I will keep you updated with the progress me make.

Cheers!
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Just doing my bit for the OSI. :)
 
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MetalHead

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For a straight foreward information site, Wordpress is better (www.wordpress.org) much easier learning curve, hundreds of awesome free plugins and (by my own testing) much more search engine friendly than Joonmla (or even Drupal)
 
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XaXasTHoC

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I just designed my first Joomla! website this morning...its very easy! why do you want to go study Web Design if you have this powerful tools? sure you don't learn about all the protocols and stuff,but non the less Joomla lets you design real nice websites! fast and easy....
 
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FarligOpptreden

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*sigh* It doesn't let you "design" a site. It allows you to populate a prefabricated system with loads of jun... uh, content and then choose a RocketTheme. That's about all. There is zero design going into it.
 
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Website DESIGN is very important in the way your website comes across to it's visitors. Joomla & WP are CMS systems designed to get you up and running quickly without having to worry about any coding or initial design. They also give you the freedom and ease of use to turn that site into whatever you want.

A great design is a very important part in the web development process. Jommla & WP do not design your site for you.
 
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donderhaas

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I also say go for Wordpress rather than Joomla, because Joomla over complictes things. I've also found that it is easier to customise or design your own template with Wordpress.

On the topic of design itself - this is soooo important as it sets the standard and quality of what your website has to offer.

For a totally free solution check out http://www.yola.com/ which enables you to create your own site with a drag and drop system online.
 
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