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I personally use a WCMS for managing our website. This technique has lots of advantages, especially if you have a team working on a project where not everyone is an expert programmer. But purely programming language-driven solutions have also their charm. I thought it would be interesting to know how most of us manage their sites.
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I tried a couple of cms packages a couple of years ago and found them so unfriendly that I gave up and started writing my own, I really wanted the flexibility of being able to do what I want with my pages.
That said it takes so much longer to write your own and I have seen lots of really nice sites recently using cms, there are also so many addons available nowadays making cms much more flexible.
I may well look at using cms in the near future.
I personally use RapidWeaver on my Mac.
I have been doing HTML for quite a few years and do not struggle with it but RapidWeaver just gives you a fantastic framework and makes adding new pages a doddle. You regain full HTML control if you want it. All the code it generates complies with XHTML Strict and CSS and the code is very SEO friendly.
Since i found out about RapidWeaver I have not hand coded a site since!
Mac only though so no good if you are a Windows user..
I use drupal for one of my sites, It certainly takes some getting used to especially if you aren't used to CMS. However there are a lot of plugins available and loads of support forums if you ever get stuck and once you are used to how it works it becomes a breeze.
I host my site on Go Daddy/Website Tonight. They have a good (simple) point and click css system that even a rookie like me can work with. I just use basic html coding within the editor.
The cost is reasonable and I have virtually unlimited page and bandwidth capabilities.
The network is fast and I haven't experienced any noticeable down time in over a year.
My site has been html since inception, but right now I am considering switching over to a good SEO supporting CMS. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
I use the open source tool: Typo3 (http://typo3.org/). It is a powerful CMS. But you have to learn certain basics to use it properly. You get lots of functions as extensions and plug-ins, but very often the documentation is missing. As for SEO, it is very easy to include keywords and descriptions on each page.Quote:
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Nandakishore
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On my main site I use my own CMS + Wordpress, but I recently found another good CMS Joomla, and I'm going to use it on my other sites.
Thanks for the tips. I will check these CMS's out.
Do you know if they allow you to use custom URLs?
Andy
In Typo3 you can use the socalled real URLs like http://www.online-casino-newsroom.co...ne_casino.htmlQuote:
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Nandakishore
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Joomla has a lot of extensions, which allow you to use SEO friendly links, your custom links and etc.
Wordpress does allow custom file names too.
Yup WP is great and if your unsure take a look at the links in my sig, check the code,,paid themes will usually validate but I mucked a few things up. Anyway all my pages are structured properly and I have all my sites on it now
I'm using Joomla at this moment for my site and it works great I thinks. Has a lott of extensions and is easy to work with.
I like Joomla and I am starting to see/notice more sites that use joomla although sometimes it can be hard to tell.
I've a couple of sites that use Drupal. It's a little difficult to start with but after you get used to it, is fairly straightforward. It does have some limitations though. I'm currently trying to setup a Joomla site but I'm finding it very strange, possibly due to the fact I've been using Drupal and they both work differently.