CMS system website

Joost · Post by **Joost** » Sun Nov 21, 2010 11:47 am

I want to create my own website for my ghibli collection.
I normally use Drupal as CMS to create websites.

What do you guys use to build your own website?
Would like te hear some input

Joost · Post by **Joost** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:30 pm

So nobody is willing to share their secrets?

zerospace · Post by **zerospace** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 3:23 pm

Perhaps no one else uses anything like that

. Personally, I use my own code which is a cel gallery app that I wrote in PHP & MySQL.

beatrush · Post by **beatrush** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:55 pm

Hard code and Notepad all the way over here.

Joost · Post by **Joost** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 9:21 am

My knowledge is not enough to write something like that from scratch

Respect for you guys

graymouser · Post by **graymouser** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 11:23 am

I would love to advise, but I am the same as above. I just use wordpad to write XML/CSS. No fancy programs or anything so I don't know what would be best for you to use. Sorry.

Animechaos · Post by **Animechaos** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 2:06 pm

I've used Dreamweaver for a really long time.

Joost · Post by **Joost** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 6:28 pm

I use Dreamweaver for some parts, put it seems nobody is really using a newer CMS system like Drupal.

Well I'm starting this in Drupal and I'll keep you posted

evilgordo · Post by **evilgordo** » Fri Nov 26, 2010 9:24 pm

My Non-RS gallery (in sig) is Drupal, ver. 5 I think. It's about 2 years old and I tried to update to latest version (6) but most of the modules broke so I left it. Nothing too exciting really, I just wanted a linear history of updates with preview and a some sort of tag system. Still a work in progress...maybe it's time to revisit good ol' PHP

kizu · Post by **kizu** » Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:26 am

Depends what I want to do with the website. I'm just going to assume you're really looking for a gallery web application. I typically go to sourceforge.net to find something free and interesting. I can say though that I've yet to see a gallery application that's really good and easy to use as a cel gallery, then again I have specific criterias on what makes a good cel gallery.

Joost · Post by **Joost** » Sat Nov 27, 2010 3:20 am

The pro's on Druapl is that you can implement as many modules as you want

photo, video, ...
I'm going to try it in Drupal 6.19, we will see

zerospace · Post by **zerospace** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:10 am

I have a related question for you, Joost (or anyone else who uses CMS software to build a site): If you're knowledgeable enough to customize something like Drupal, why not learn to go a step further? Is it just that you don't want to waste the time? I can totally appreciate that. I've played with customizing stuff like Wordpress and other web apps, and I find it totally annoying (but that's just me.. I've always figured I'm weird

). I've always found it most beneficial to have a programming background, even when working on supposedly simple user-friendly programs.

The reason I decided to develop my own gallery app is because I used to use a photo gallery app for my gallery, and when I had a problem with it, the programmer bit my head off *sigh*. So, that pretty much told me that it was time to move on and work on my own, because editing someone else's code is nothing short of obnoxious to me. I spent a month building the first version of my gallery app and soooo many more upgrading and improving it. In fact, I'm working on the improvements list for the next version right now.

Chaos -- Dreamweaver, really?! You developed SMJ in Dreamweaver? Eeesh! I think I'd shoot myself in the head.

Whenever I use a program like that, I always end up feeling like I'm fighting with it to do what I want to do. Maybe I'm just too old-fashioned. Or, Dreamweaver is better than I remember

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Joost · Post by **Joost** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 5:28 am

I'm not good enough in programming

, well not good enough in php/sql
And about Drupal, I really like the community they are really helpfull.