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Building My Own CMS/Platform

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 1:42 am
by Svetlana007
Hello,

I need advice…please help..

I owned HTML5 kindergarten website. It's static website.
The website designed in Dreamweaver CS3 from HTML5 template.

I would like to make it dynamic (content management), I mean that I could add pages, images, videos from some interface/platform (something like WIX concept)

Do I need to hire some web developer what will develop this kind of platform to make this website or I can use editors like ckeditor.

In the bottom line I want when the kindergarten teacher enter the website, she will see two fields: username and password. After login she could see kind of control panel with pages names of the website. She could get in update the content of the pages and add new pages + images to the website. In the end of each update she will save the changes by pressing "save" button.

I know you probably think that the perfect solution for this is to wordpress or joomla…. but I need to build my unique platform.

1. I don't know what I need for this: Sever Side - Data Base solution? PHP developing?
2. Who do I need to hire?
3. Do I need to hire PHP developer for this? How much this could cost?
4. Is it difficult or maybe I can use some free solutions for this (some converter from static to dynamic, I don't know)
5. If I want to make it by my self, what do I need to learn to develop this kind of platform by my self?

I will be thankful and appreciate each answer of you.


It is important to me to develop my own platform or to use some relevant tools to make my platform unique. It will serve my all kindergartens websites.

Thanks,

Svetlana.

Re: Building My Own CMS/Platform

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 6:56 am
by Celauran
Svetlana007 wrote:I know you probably think that the perfect solution for this is to wordpress
Given the way you've described it, yes.
Svetlana007 wrote:but I need to build my unique platform.
Why?

Re: Building My Own CMS/Platform

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 4:19 pm
by pickle
I'm with ~Celauran - why do you need to build your own platform? There's often very little reason to.

I'd look much wider than just at Wordpress though. Wordpress is a cludge - there are much better CMSs out there.

Re: Building My Own CMS/Platform

Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 10:09 am
by Svetlana007
Hi,

Thank you guys for your help...

It is really sounds not an easy thing to do, so I though with my self and I think to use existing CMS is the right thing to do and I think I will go with wordpress.

Please advice me if you know:

1. The easiest way to convert already designed html5 website to wordpress - where are many ways I google it and saw in youtube, but which one the safe one and fast? If where a way to do it with some wordpress plugin?


2. If I want to limit my website with pages in wordpress, I mean I want that the admin could not add more than 1000 pages per website for example?


3. Can you tell me please what main advantages of joomla/drupal of worpress. I mean I probably will go with wordpress, but is any advantage for others CMS platforms not worpress?


Thank you again, you helped me a lot.

Svetlana.

Re: Building My Own CMS/Platform

Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 11:26 am
by Celauran
1. You will want to use your existing HTML to create a WordPress theme. It's really not all that difficult.

2. I'm sure it can be done, but is this a reasonable concern? 1,000 pages? Really?

3. The biggest advantage of WordPress over Joomla or Drupal is ease of use. Pickle is absolutely right in that it's not particularly well written, but it's dead simple to set up and use, and its install base is sufficiently large that you won't have any trouble finding solutions to whatever problems may arise or finding someone to help you customize things to your needs.