Good day.
I wanting to setup an information web site to drive traffic and generate advertising revenue. I am looking for the correct tools to do it. Before I go ahead and start it's creation I want to find something that will be capible of fulilling all the needs of the web site.
The site needs to be driven by a CMS. I have some limited experiance with are Joomla, Druple and wordpress. It may be that Joomla and Druple possibly even word press could fulfill these needs via plugins and moduals, although I would probably stay away from Wordpress due to is blog type nature and that is not what I am after.
Requierments
1. CMS
2. Advertising
3. Maps
4. Media
5. News agrigator
1. CMS
The cms does not need to be overly complicated. It needs to allow me to create sperate pages as well as menu items for each page. Menu items should be avalible site wide as well as the option to create page specific menu items. The CMS should also be able to perform the specfied functions below.
2. Advertising
Advertising banners should be able to be displayed in designated areas of the page. Idealy I would like a system which would allow a user to to log in to the system upload advertising banners a Duration should be selectable for the length of time the banner would be avalible 1 week 2 week a date range etc. This should calculate a payment amount to be confirmed via paypal.
I would via the CMS be able to set the date and price ranges for diffrent advertising areas on the page.
3. Maps intergratoin.
I would like to be able to insert address into a databse via the CMS (manualy or import via csv, or something simliar). I should be able to set a flag for each address that would catogrise it. I should then be able enter a post code / area and tick a catogry or multiple catogrys and have place marks show up on the google map via in the location of the area. A distance radius would be needed as a filter for this as well.
I would like for Users to be able to enter new locations into the site. with or with out registration to the page (undecided yet) possibly with a holding area that would then require the location entered to be confirmed.
4. Media
I would like to be able to insert media in to any page on the site either via a direct upload an inbed link from places like youtube vimeo, flicker, etc.
5. News Agrigator
Would want to be able to pull in news feeds then have those news feeds fed into a new news feed. I would want to specifi what would make up the new news feed eg: latest two entries from feeds a b and c creates new feed. Latest single entry form x y z creates new feed.
This is my basic critera at the moment and it may evolve some what. If any one has some suggestions on what I should be looking at using that would be helpfull as well as what I would expect to pay for some one to build me a custom CMS specifcaly for this task.
Thanks for your comments.
Some CMS advice
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Re: Some CMS advice
All CMS systems you mention can do what you want. How difficult it will be depends on your skills and familiarity with the systems. Personally I find Wordpress the easiest and best documented of the three. Because wordpress uses plain PHP in it's templates, if there's no existing plugin that does what you want, you can write any PHP to do what you need.
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Re: Some CMS advice
Drupal, Joomla and WordPress can do this.1. CMS
The cms does not need to be overly complicated. It needs to allow me to create sperate pages as well as menu items for each page. Menu items should be avalible site wide as well as the option to create page specific menu items. The CMS should also be able to perform the specfied functions below.
All probably have advertising modules, but those exact requirements are specific, you probably won't find an out of the box solution. Drupal would be easiest to bend into shape but you need to learn Drupal API and how modules/hooks work. Search the Joomla JED for adbanner components you might actually find something.2. Advertising
Advertising banners should be able to be displayed in designated areas of the page. Idealy I would like a system which would allow a user to to log in to the system upload advertising banners a Duration should be selectable for the length of time the banner would be avalible 1 week 2 week a date range etc. This should calculate a payment amount to be confirmed via paypal.
I have never seen a module for Drupal, Joomla or WordPress that did that. Not say one doesn't exist. Drupal again would be easiest, IMO. If you were a real Drupal hack, you might even get something working without writing a single line of code, but wiring modules togather.3. Maps intergratoin.
I would like to be able to insert address into a databse via the CMS (manualy or import via csv, or something simliar). I should be able to set a flag for each address that would catogrise it. I should then be able enter a post code / area and tick a catogry or multiple catogrys and have place marks show up on the google map via in the location of the area. A distance radius would be needed as a filter for this as well.
I would like for Users to be able to enter new locations into the site. with or with out registration to the page (undecided yet) possibly with a holding area that would then require the location entered to be confirmed.
So your not a developer and intened of hiring someone? Price will vary, obviously. Hire a developer from a developing nation, it won't cost you much but you probably won't get what you want either, so you might as well just send me a cheque for a few hundred bucks and considered it a lesson learned. :pas well as what I would expect to pay for some one to build me a custom CMS specifcaly for this task.
Find someone with Drupal experience and they could probably have that done over a weekend, so even at $50/hr you get the entire web site for less than a grand (approx: $800 USD). Drupal is excellent for prototyping applications on a tight budget.
What kind of budget are you looking at? Do you have the site design? Is it in XHTML format ready to be integrated into a template?
You better consider all the requirements before expecting to get a accurate estimate. When a client approaches me and more requirements become clear, sometimes they fall outside my area of interest and I outsource to other more experienced individuals. When I do that, it costs me time and therefore costs clients more money, had they sought the services out themselves, they could probably save money.
Cheers,
Alex