I’ve managed to change the photos at the head of this page from generic to my own, but I’m not 100% convinced it’s actually an improvement.
In other tech news, I’ve volunteered to take over the SAS choir website, given that the ones that we’ve had in the last few years aren’t great. We did have an excellent one a few years ago, but unfortunately a great parting of ways has happened since then.
The first thought was to try and find a CMS that would do the job. The website is going to be quite simple. A few static pages of explanatory notes and a members’ section with details about the next tour. I thought it would be nice if it could have an interactive ‘e-mail me when it changes’ function, and there might also be a use for a members’ bulletin board.
Dataflame has a widget that can instal various different CMSes for you so I spent an afternoon playing with variety of different ones to see if I could get what I wanted. I couldn’t. They were all a bit too much for me. They all had hundreds of features that would take hours to turn off, or clunky funky designs that shout script kiddy rather than anglican choir.
Back to the drawing board. This might be a hand-written website. That’s going to take a little more time.
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Keep it simple until there’s a good reason not to – that’s generally the rule I live by. One of the things I’ve been asked to do at work is replace our Intranet and, like you, I had a look at 701 CMSs, but in the end when I looked at what it does, and what it needs to do, there’s no reason to do anything more complex than a Dreamweaver flat site. If there’s anything I can do to help, yell – I really enjoyed the singing 🙂
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I was thinking more Frontpage (because I know how to use it and won’t have to fork out to buy a copy) actually.
Or maybe even Notepad. I did it once before, at the now woefully outdated http://www.gaynottingham.co.uk.