How to allow an admin update the website?

loloray

Hi my friend looks after his GAA website and has asked me to look into making a new one for him. Tbh it's not very good at the moment and even though I'm a beginner I know that I can easily design a much better one for them.

However he wants to be able to regularly update the gallery and update certain sections of the website (say 90% of the info will be static, with max 10% updated every week or two). As the updates will be regular enough, I can't commit to doing the updates all the time for him, and he doesn't know any html or stuff like this, so I need to figure out a way for him to do this really easily.

So for the gallery, I was actually thinking of simply using http://coppermine.sf.net/, which I could integrate into the website and which he can update when he wants (as he showed me another GAA website which uses this)
And for text . . . I'm not sure what the best way is to do this. I guess my options are some CMS system (should be free or super cheap) or because it would only be him updating a small part of the website would it be a good idea to create my own CMS using PHP for him? I'm not mad on using Joomla or Drupal or Wordpress.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts and advice.

theone

I was a beginner like yourself when i did this gaa website last year http://cnp.ie/ it's based on joomla,The gallery and everything else is integrated.It's not a looker but it does the job.

adm

You might want to have a look at concrete5:
http://www.concrete5.org/

I've no connection with it - it's just simpler than joomla or drupal IMHO

Trivarion

loloray wrote: »

I'm not mad on using Joomla or Drupal or Wordpress.

For a simple CMS I recommend Website Baker. It's very very simple. I used it recently to put a small business website together (99% static text, contact box, map, small gallery).
http://www.websitebaker2.org/en/home.php

loloray

Thanks for the replies. With these CMS solutions like Website Baker, and Concrete5, they mention templates etc. I don't actually want a template as such. But I do want an admin to be able to easily upload pics to a certain area, and text to a certain different area. So if I use a CMS solution like what has been recommended, does this mean I have to use a template??
Thx again.

was.deevey

Any CMS system drupal/joomla/concrete etc ... will use a template base of some description (the main site outline).

There is a ton of free (and paid for) templates for most systems that can be easily edited to suit e.g. http://www.joomla24.com

Personally i love Joomla, its just so damn extendable and (quite) future proof with a huge community.

There's also a very cool flickr addon, so you can just have him upload to flickr and pull in the images ?

If you don't want him delving into the backend for editing text (which can be daunting).. there are a number of plugin editors that allow simple editing / adding pages from the front page of the site (content-submit is one of these).

At a later date you could add community builder and create kinda a Facebook Network for members (with own galleries / blog etc) an events calendar, shop etc etc .. sky's the limit.

P.S. If you want a very simple page editor, cmsimple was one I used to use (google it, i think it changed name though) .... to be fair its not amazing but does the trick for simple stuff.