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Sn00ks

July 18, 2012, 01:14:16 PM
My lovely partner has nominated me to take over the running and support of our riding club's website, deep joy. :ranting2:

I know nothing about web sites or stuff to do with web sites so I would like to know what, preferably free, software I need to be able to do things and how to do those things that I should be doing. :blink:

Any advice, related to web sites and not the 'problem', would also be appreciated. :flirty:

Currently I think it is a boring website and that it needs to be re-vamped a bit, penistoneridingclub.co.uk, but I was told that a riders wives section might not be in character.
I do exactly what the little voices tell me to.

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BrotherTobious

#1
July 18, 2012, 01:25:02 PM
Wordpress is your kind of easy to use friend mate
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Gandalf

#2
July 18, 2012, 01:51:43 PM
Indeed. I knocked our camera club website together using wordpress in a few hours. (shameless promotion) //www.ore-st-helens.co.uk

Free download, easy to use.
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July 18, 2012, 02:15:55 PM
Go for wordpress or one of the main free CMS (content management systems) as others have stated.

What are your requirements in terms of bulitin boards, picture and video integration, landing pages and news feeds. The more info the more help we can give.

DZ
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Sn00ks

#4
July 18, 2012, 03:06:25 PM
It's just going to be a very basic web presence. Just telling people about the club, promoting forth-coming events, maybe a picture gallery etc etc.

So far I've been drawn to Kompozer. Seems to have all the bits I need included.
I do exactly what the little voices tell me to.

PC Specs:- Black box with some fans that go whirrr, a few lights, things inside that get warm, headphones, keyboard (a clicky one), mouse (with buttons and no squeak), disks (2-off SSD and HDD) and a monitor of sufficient proportions.

Jamin

#5
July 18, 2012, 05:21:53 PM
Quote from: Sn00ks;354915It's just going to be a very basic web presence. Just telling people about the club, promoting forth-coming events, maybe a picture gallery etc etc.

So far I've been drawn to Kompozer. Seems to have all the bits I need included.

Kompozer was what I was going to suggest, it's portable so you can keep the software and site on a mem stick.

smilodon

#6
July 18, 2012, 05:39:01 PM
Wordpress requires an MySQL database to work, which might be a limiting factor for you. However it's the best option if you need to regularly update the content, post about news, current and past evens etc. Wordpress makes a dynamic web site a breeze to run.

Kompozer is great if you want to build a website that is mostly static with very occasional updates etc. It's not so good if you're looking to add additional content on a regular basis
smilodon
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Sn00ks

#7
July 18, 2012, 08:08:04 PM
Thanks for your feedback lads. I think there'll be updates every couple of weeks so I don't think I need the dynamisim of Wordpress. Kompozer it is then.
I do exactly what the little voices tell me to.

PC Specs:- Black box with some fans that go whirrr, a few lights, things inside that get warm, headphones, keyboard (a clicky one), mouse (with buttons and no squeak), disks (2-off SSD and HDD) and a monitor of sufficient proportions.

Dewey

#8
July 19, 2012, 01:29:26 PM
Minor point but Wordpress is not a CMS - its a blogging tool. You can extend its functionality to try and replicate a CMS but its never going to have the feature set of something like Concrete 5, Squiz, Drupal etc.

Quote from: DrunkenZombiee;354913Go for wordpress or one of the main free CMS (content management systems) as others have stated.

What are your requirements in terms of bulitin boards, picture and video integration, landing pages and news feeds. The more info the more help we can give.

DZ

T-Bag

#9
July 19, 2012, 02:02:22 PM
I've heard good things about Joomla and there's a free way of trying it out on their hosting (it's also open source so you can use it free with your own hosting too). A friend of mine knocked up a website using it for his parents holiday home. It had twitter integration etc and seems easy enough that they can run it themselves.
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Benny

#10
July 19, 2012, 04:26:18 PM
Opinions being like arseholes, you'll be surprised to hear mine is very different and a much tighter proposition.

Go Daddy do websites, get rid of the headache and put it up there. It's cheap and a doddle to configure and run. Easy to expand in future if you need to.
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smilodon

#11
July 19, 2012, 05:55:59 PM
Go Daddy is an option. However you'd have to disable your moral compass first
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Daddy#Controversies

I'm being a little pedantic but a hosted option is something that's well worth considering and a couple of friends have used Go Daddy. Controversies aside they do seem to offer a very robust and easy to use web authoring service.
smilodon
Whatever's gone wrong it's not my fault.

Benny

#12
July 19, 2012, 08:41:32 PM
How about 1&1?
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smilodon

#13
July 19, 2012, 10:36:31 PM
I can speak from personal experience (my web sites are currently with them) that if you never ever need to speak to anyone about anything then 1&1 are fine. Good web tools and solid service. Customer services and tech support though are effectively non existent.
smilodon
Whatever's gone wrong it's not my fault.

Sn00ks

#14
July 20, 2012, 11:55:34 AM
The site already exists and is hosted somewhere, not sure where though.
It is ongoing maintenance and updates that I've been volunteered for, and I think it needs re-vamping as it's boring.
A riders wives section maybe?
I do exactly what the little voices tell me to.

PC Specs:- Black box with some fans that go whirrr, a few lights, things inside that get warm, headphones, keyboard (a clicky one), mouse (with buttons and no squeak), disks (2-off SSD and HDD) and a monitor of sufficient proportions.
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