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vpulipati
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php website builder

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I'm looking for recommendations for a good website builder using php. I want to build a professional looking website for my business, and would like to use open source tools for obvious reasons. The tool must be very simple to use, and offer a lot of templates that allow me to just fill in the content without any coding. And, I should be able to create drop-down menus on mouseover, again without coding. The site is mostly content based and fairly simple for now, but would include a bunch of forms in future and I plan to have a php developer doing that stuff then.
I will appreciate any suggestions. Thanks in advance
alex.barylski
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Re: php website builder

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vpulipati wrote:I'm looking for recommendations for a good website builder using php.
Notepad. ;)
vpulipati wrote:I want to build a professional looking website for my business, and would like to use open source tools for obvious reasons.
Because there free? :P
vpulipati wrote:The tool must be very simple to use
Notepad
vpulipati wrote:and offer a lot of templates that allow me to just fill in the content without any coding.
Ummm...well...I built a CMS a while back which does something like this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/texocms

It does essentially that...builds PHP pages using a templated approach so design can changed rapidly. I'm not supporting it anymore as my attention has long since switched to something else, but the code is pretty simple.
vpulipati wrote:And, I should be able to create drop-down menus on mouseover, again without coding. The site is mostly content based and fairly simple for now, but would include a bunch of forms in future and I plan to have a php developer doing that stuff then.
I will appreciate any suggestions. Thanks in advance
You could probably create a module for my CMS which made menu generaiton possible (either generating from the file structure or XML file or similar). You might want to look into other alternatives.

http://www.opensourcecms.org

Cheers :)
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RobertGonzalez
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Re: php website builder

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So basically you want something to make your web site for you? Not sure that there is such a thing. Unless you want to consider a web developer. ;)
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Christopher
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There are lots of them. I saw this one the other day:

http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/20 ... -page.html
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Re: php website builder

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I don't think such a tool exists. There are programs like Frontpage, with which you can build your own webpages, but don't expect any quality. The online webbuilder Arborint pointed to is something like Frontpage but then online. It also produces low-quality code (from a quick view). Those are excellent solutions if you want to make a hobby-site about your goldfish collection.

If you want something professional for your business, you need a real developer/designer.
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