At What Point Do I change to CMS?

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At What Point Do I change to CMS?

naitsirhc26

1:32 am on Apr 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

At what point would you say I change to a CMS? I am just worried that I have too many pages of "deep" heirarchal linking structure.

Like I will have a "Knowledge Center" on my site, that includes the Articles page, Tips, Photo Gallery, etc...

What are your thoughts for me, and what CMS would you recommend? I am thinking something like Joomla?

And is it possible for me to keep my same exact look of the site, with a CMS? (kind of hard to show this without a link to my site. I guess if you really want to check it out you can see my profile with a link to my site)

I am just lost at to when I should switch, pros and cons, etc...

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Christian

cmarshall

2:27 am on Apr 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

Any number of CMSes could give you that operation.

Depends upon the traffic.

For basic, low-traffic blogging, WordPress is probably the best one out there, but something like Plesk may be better for a more intense site.

I am not familiar enough with Joomla to render a judgment on it.

One thing that I will say about any CMS, is TURN OFF THE STUFF YOU DON'T NEED!

I get so tired of hitting blogs with "french windows" structures, completely taking away from the central point, and overcomplicating the UI.

mcjohnson

2:29 am on Apr 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

it should be very easy to convert to a CMS...assuming you're on a linux server and know a little about PHP/MySQl. You can use Joomla to create content items, then replace the standard HTML code in a specific spot in your page to serve up the content from the database.

In other words, you dont have to use Joomla's OUTPUT site - you can use the interface to INPUT data into your MySQL db, then custom write code to serve up the content into your existing site. (again, this assumes you know a good amount about MySQL/PHP)

good luck,