Hi Josh, Afraid in this day and age there's no such thing as a "general" website. Also, it depends on how technical you are.
For example, if I just wanted a site of static content, I'd probably borrow a CSS template from the web and use hand-written HTML5. Others would use Wordpress which to some extent hides some of the more technical aspects unless, of course you decide to tweak the inner workings of Wordpress to suit yourself. Afraid it's a "how long is a piece of string" kind of question and I recognise this hasn't answered you at all for which my apologies but I hope this provides some info. Dónal On 12 Apr 2013, at 21:16, Josh Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > What, out of curiosity, would you use if you wanted to create, say, a general > website? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 12, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Dónal Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Stuart, >> >> First off, if this drifts off topic for this list feel free to continue the >> discussion off-list. >> >> I use both techniques depending on the type of site I need to create. >> Drupal works perfectly well with Mac indeed my own small course site is >> built on it. You need to make tweaks to get rid of a few things like an >> overlay, but that's a matter of about 15 seconds at the start once you have >> installed. >> >> It honestly depends on what you want to achieve with the site. If you want >> a forum, blog, or ECommerce facilities, then Drupal is the easiest way to >> go. 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