I would also recommend drupal for a all in one type solution. It's a little weird to get use to, but once you get it.. it's simple. Also they have a great community and awesome plugins... and free.

http://drupal.org/

HTH
hanji

hanji wrote:I would also recommend drupal for a all in one type solution. It's a little weird to get use to, but once you get it.. it's simple. Also they have a great community and awesome plugins... and free.

http://drupal.org/

HTH
hanji

No offense, but reccommending Drupal to someone at the stage the original poster is in is very much overkill. It's like suggesting buying a shoe store in order to obtain shoelaces. Drupal is a big Content Management System and it's very very nice but even web veterans have to fight with it, it needs a database backend, etc.

Good suggestions: use CNN's css and use wordpress...

-r

bomberz1qr20 wrote:With these three apps you can build an entire site for no software investment except time.


Web hosting is cheap. Very cheap.

http://www.1and1.com

They host my website and are quite reliable.

As a developer, I found 1and1 to be impossible to work with--their built-in CMS is absolutely impenetrable if you need to make custom changes. I ended up downloading a copy of the whole damn thing and ran cross-directory greps just to find what files to edit. Very confusing.

I just did some maintenance on a WordPress site for someone, and while it's not completely transparent, it seems quite reasonable.

'course, usually I'm coding my own CMSs for people, so I can do things the way I like them.

warmowski wrote:
Good suggestions: use CNN's css and use wordpress...

-r

Thanks for the help everyone.

Warmoski, what is CNN's css?

a CSS is a stylesheet - a file that gives a page all the 'rules' about how each sections looks, text format etc.

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/ssi/css/1.5/main.css

this is the one in the CNN page. it will look completely alien to you.

what they suggest is to use the format of that page for your own, but i think it will be much easier to just select a Wordpress template and do everything from there.