Hi,
I'm hitting a bit of a brick wall here. The design company I work for (10 staff, 4 designers) is trying to expand it online offering, and the designers have been asked to design & build a fully content managed website. The website must be a social hub where people can share information, comment on blogs, register as a user, upload information, and include Twitter feeds, word clouds, flickr feeds, etc etc.
We have basic experience of building websites using CSS and Dreamweaver, but no experience of PHP, databases or anything else to do with programming a content management system.
I have looked at a couple of options:
JOOMLA - Ok, but limits the design in that the easiest way would be to use a pre-built template and modify it, and many of the 'modules' are designed by others and I'm limited on how much I can style them. Building a bespoke template from scratch seems to be a minefield.
CONTRIBUTE - good for editing basic websites but not database driven.
Admittedly I am a designer, not a programmer and do not especially wish to become one. I'd like to know how other design companies go about doing this - do you have an in-house/freelance programmer that does it all for you? Do you design AND program? Should I bite the bullet and attempt to be a designer and a programmer too?
Any thought greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
David
I'm hitting a bit of a brick wall here. The design company I work for (10 staff, 4 designers) is trying to expand it online offering, and the designers have been asked to design & build a fully content managed website. The website must be a social hub where people can share information, comment on blogs, register as a user, upload information, and include Twitter feeds, word clouds, flickr feeds, etc etc.
We have basic experience of building websites using CSS and Dreamweaver, but no experience of PHP, databases or anything else to do with programming a content management system.
I have looked at a couple of options:
JOOMLA - Ok, but limits the design in that the easiest way would be to use a pre-built template and modify it, and many of the 'modules' are designed by others and I'm limited on how much I can style them. Building a bespoke template from scratch seems to be a minefield.
CONTRIBUTE - good for editing basic websites but not database driven.
Admittedly I am a designer, not a programmer and do not especially wish to become one. I'd like to know how other design companies go about doing this - do you have an in-house/freelance programmer that does it all for you? Do you design AND program? Should I bite the bullet and attempt to be a designer and a programmer too?
Any thought greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
David
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