I want to create a simple website that someone could use to ask a question in reference to a picture or just mear text. In short, a simple Question and Answer site that I or anyone could use to seek out advice from the general public about a particular product or service that they might want to buy or use. And for any contribution made to the site, all parties must obtain account with just a username email and a location. For each and every question asked, I want the following to be included along with the question: The name of the product or service The question its self along with a simple description. Space for a picture of the product being asked about. Space for comments with the ability to respond to a particular comment among the many for example like youtube video comments. Along with star ratings for each comment. On the bottom left, a search box along with a drop down category list of both products and services listed. And finally in the homepage body, A random top six list of any of the latest postings updated in real time that can change from time to time every after a posting is made. Is there any CMS I could use to create this sort of website, or if not where should I start? Thanks .
You could definitely use Wordpress for this, but it would need a fair amount of bespoke customisation to get the functionality you need. However, it's good fr comments/posting as you've mentioned you require here. Good luck with it all.
wordpress, drupal and joomla are some good CMSs. you can use any one of them to suit your specifications
you could use wordpress or similar, but the questionnaire part probably would need some additional coding.
I think drupal is best for this kind of website. For example, there are lots of modules, some of them are, http://drupal.org/project/advanced_forum http://drupal.org/project/advanced_profile http://drupal.org/project/author_pane http://drupal.org/project/advanced_forum_more_styles http://drupal.org/project/og_forum http://drupal.org/project/ddblock http://drupal.org/project/privatemsg You have to learn lot, but there are lots of tutorials. You can develop your own modules if you need.
Joomla is an excellent cms interface, plus you can add in the modules or components you need such as FAQ or use their free virtuemart shopping cart, which you can set up as a catalogue if you are not actually selling products online.
I agree Drupal is the best CMS for an type of Website. With user modules and themes we can tweak any functions in our desired way.