Residents' association, sorry. There are more than one of us. On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Francis Fish <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. >> >> >> >> >> >> > -- Thanks and regards, Francis Fish --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
