I'm quite familiar with HTML and did some site designs and programming (PHP/JSP) but am not familiar with CMS What do you recommend : Joomla/Mambo ? or Postnuke ? or other systems ? Thanks I would be creating mainly Corporate profile sites - Homepage - Corporate profiles - news and events - contact us - shopping carts ? (Or I could use OsCommerce) Criterias - quickstarter - good features - open source - templates freely and widely available - adsense or banner plug-ins a plus - image gallery /integration with other tools Do you recommend Postnuke ? Joomla ? Mambo ? some of the newer CMS ? Thanks for you help
Try http://opensourcecms.com, and you can play with a lot of CMS there. IMHO Joomla and Drupal are good. Not many people will recommend Postnuke.
Tested couple CMS and love Joomla... Corporate Homepage - any contents including static pages; FAQ and others. Corporate Profiles - either use Contact or use Static page to create profile News - come with Newsflash; Latest News; etc.. Events - add on module available to add Event Contact us - multiple contact profile can be setup Shopping Cart - add on module VirtueMart (http://www.virtuemart.net) To meet your criterias Quickstarter - with PHP and MySQL in place, 15 min max to setup Lots of add-on-modules available around the world, minimual charge or FOC Joomla is OpenSource Templates can be freely download or purchase special designs at minimual charge Google AdSense module available for download Banner already build in Image Gallery intergration module available for download.. Test that out..!!
Also one question, i want to re-design my site and change the concept, do i need to set my cms to offline mode, or just leave it open like that ?? Which is the best ??
Thanks very much for your answer... I will definitely start working with Joomla and read the tutorials...
Interesting products! Noted the Re-Design annocement.. When we re-design our site, we just create another template/s and assign that to pages one by one. We didn't take down the site. Hope it helps!