Frontier – frontal dementia website
Frontotemporal Dementia Research Group’s website FRONTIER has just gone live. FRONTIER is a research group that focuses on frontal dementia, picks disease, behaviour changes and memory loss.
Frontier is the 17th site that we have built for clients using WordPress as a simple Content Management System. Some of our other clients that use WordPress include:
Why WordPress?
Some clients come to us with very limited budgets and time frames. While many back-end purists would prefer to build their CMS’s from scratch or use other open source tools such as Plone, Drupal or Joomla, we have found WordPress to be an ideal solution. It is free, quick to set up and easy for clients to use.
Without starting a holy war… what sort of CMS do you prefer for small client sites?
Date: 6 July 2008
Author: Russ Weakley
Category: News, Web
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Russ, always find your designs very effective and clean, something a lot of sites lack today. Congrats on the new one.
Nice, clean and useable Design. Well done. I did allready more then 60 Sites with WordPress as CMS, my customers love the simple and understandable backend. For me it’s first choice.
Wordpress is a great option.
When you feel you might have just a little bit more required of the backend, Drupal is good, especially after the introduction of the ‘theme developer’ module in Drupal 6.
http://drupal.org/project/devel
That module enables you to easily find which file is responsible for each part of a page’s HTML, just by mousing over and clicking.
Wordpress for sure. The backend user interface experience i would have to say is one of the easiest for clients to understand. Its also easy to integrate the front end elements.
I’ve used wordpress, but it’s usually a custom built CMS
The only issue with using WP in my opinion is that you and the client really need to sit down and establish that it really is a small, limited job. IME any sort of scope creep + WP leads to disappointing hell no matter how many plugins you throw at it
After a few years with out own CMS we decided to run with Wordpress for a few clients a couple of months ago and haven’t looked back. Easy to configure, easy to theme, and plugins galore. It’s saved us hours.
We haven’t had anything really big yet – but for the type and size of work we do it’s wonderful.
WordPress is great for sites that need a cms, but hasn’t got a budget for a custom built solution.
I only wish it didn’t force you to use xhtml. I like my html strict 4.01.
Wordpress all the way baby! Did this for my boy’s primary school using WP: http://www.tirlebrook.co.uk/
Off-topic: was the decision to include JavaScript text resizers your’s or the client’s? I see them quite regularly, but I’m not a huge fan of them. I much prefer to link to a page describing how to resize text in various browsers.
The main argument against the resizers is the teach a person to fish analogy: browsers should be responsible for resizing text, not individual pages/sites. Although notably on that site the resized text is carried across pages (it often doesn’t).
WP is a great OS CMS, very friendly backend with thanks to Happy Cog.
Other good little CMS to have a look are:
http://start.websitebaker2.org/en/introduction.html
http://cmsmadesimple.org/
I’ve used wordpress, Joomla! it’s very usability CMS.