Tools for the job - sounds like you need a CMS. There's tons of PHP based ones that you don't have to get under the hood of once you get them running, then the site can be maintained by the owners. I did some community stuff for my local resident's association and just ran with the free PHP based CMS that the hosting provider had in their CPanel. To me Rails is about database backed websites. There are some Rails CMS systems out there but last time I looked they lacked the maturity of the PHP based ones and there's no point in reinventing the wheel.
Just my 2p and I bet other people in the community will have different ideas. F On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Matt Roberts <[email protected]>wrote: > I don't think I was descriptive enough about the existing website. I didn't > mention that it currently doesn't have a database! The existing site is all > html pages with lots of static information about things, very old skool! > E.g. click here to find out more about beavers (its a tree restoration > chairty before you raise eyebrows :) ). > > The only dynamic content at the moment is the perl-driven shopping stuff, > and theres not much of that. I think if I can get hold of a proper site map, > I will be able to work out how best to rework the site into rails. > > Cheers > > Matt. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
