Im looking to move my companys website to a CMS before I leave so that my replacement will have less trouble managing it than if I leave it in its current state (completely custom and probably not very good PHP). Im really not very sure which one to use, and before I just go ahead and pick one, I wanted to get thoughts from yall here.
Our current website is here: http://www.connectingpt.com/
The website consists of a few basic sections that need to remain, and there have been long-standing plans to add another section or two that I havent been able to do because I havent been given the content for them.
The Home page, with a large image in the front which needs to either change once every month or two, or be able to dynamically rotate between several images (either on page load or as an animated switch while the page is loaded), plus a few boxes down below for other items.
A catalog of our primary items. We dont do online sales, so theres no shopping cart functionality needed, but a storefront-like template would probably make it easier to edit and display, as well as maybe make it look a bit better than it does currently (especially within each product page, I think the main page looks ok).
A service information page, which would display our rates and policies. I have to get the content to go there, but it would simply be a static page, nothing special needed there.
A list of our classes we offer (possibly to be expanded to two locations, so either will need to indicate locations or have two pages). This would be nice if we could set up a sort of database with the descriptions of the classes, then just plug in a date and have it pop up on the page in the correct order. Ive never seen that functionality in a CMS before, but Id be surprised if someone didnt make something like that.
The contact page and about us pages, also basically static.
Any suggestions on the best CMS, and if needed, plugins, for that setup? Im not looking for the design to change significantly, though it could use some brushing up.
jW
Our current website is here: http://www.connectingpt.com/
The website consists of a few basic sections that need to remain, and there have been long-standing plans to add another section or two that I havent been able to do because I havent been given the content for them.
The Home page, with a large image in the front which needs to either change once every month or two, or be able to dynamically rotate between several images (either on page load or as an animated switch while the page is loaded), plus a few boxes down below for other items.
A catalog of our primary items. We dont do online sales, so theres no shopping cart functionality needed, but a storefront-like template would probably make it easier to edit and display, as well as maybe make it look a bit better than it does currently (especially within each product page, I think the main page looks ok).
A service information page, which would display our rates and policies. I have to get the content to go there, but it would simply be a static page, nothing special needed there.
A list of our classes we offer (possibly to be expanded to two locations, so either will need to indicate locations or have two pages). This would be nice if we could set up a sort of database with the descriptions of the classes, then just plug in a date and have it pop up on the page in the correct order. Ive never seen that functionality in a CMS before, but Id be surprised if someone didnt make something like that.
The contact page and about us pages, also basically static.
Any suggestions on the best CMS, and if needed, plugins, for that setup? Im not looking for the design to change significantly, though it could use some brushing up.
jW
