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Re: Question on a Basic Website for My Uncle's Business

I do plenty of playing:

* http://mikewills.me
* http://bizdevtalk.mikewills.me
* http://hotdish.mikewills.me

Not counting the dev site and a couple other sites I have in my multi-site
install of WordPress. I have been using WP since the late 90s. No learning
curve there.

Really what I was looking for was if a CMS would be overkill in this case. I
think I'll start with static pages and go from there.

--
Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me


On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Mike Pavlak <mike.p@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bryce,

I agree that it is overkill. But a minimalist attitude tends to get us IBM
i folks into trouble. If he wants to make this a learning experience, then
I say play away. Maybe create the pages manually and then still work with
the CMS to see how that compares. I don't know about you, but every time I
build a web page based upon a customer request, I get more requests, and
then more, and then more. A CMS based system may not only be a learning
experience, but also an insurance policy. You know what happens, hand code
this time and then hand code next time. Pretty soon there is so much
content in the hand coded screens that by the time you realize you need a
more streamlined approach like a CMS it is too much work and you have a
built in excuse to continue hand coding. DIRTFT!

Regardless of language or technology, I for one would encourage everyone to
get out there and PLAY and if you don't have an excuse, call me and I'll
make one up!

Regards,

Mike

mike.p@xxxxxxxx Cell: (408)679-1011 Office: (630)928-1476

Zend Server for IBM i available at
http://www.zend.com/en/products/server/zend-server-5-new-ibmi


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Bryce Martin
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 7:17 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Question on a Basic Website for My Uncle's Business

Hand code, hand code, hand code. Its not worth the hassle of setting up
and maintaining a cms over a brochure page with a contact form. Go
download a small little PHP contact form script, slap it on a page and
you're done.


Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
570-546-4777



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I already am running my own server. The 50+ hits a month won't be
noticed. He is just a small one-man shop as a retirement job.

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Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me

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On Jul 7, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Jorge Merino <jorge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If the only thing that you want is a plain, simply HTML page and don't
want to bother about hosting services, installing or create a complex
design from scratch, then I'll probably would go with Google sites.

With Google sites you can create a Web Page as if you would be creating
a Word Document.
You can also add Google Analytics and Google Web Master tools.
It is also integrated with Google Docs and Google Apps Script gadgets,
and most of the Google technologies.
The Down side is that you do not have much control over margin sizes,
but if you get creative you can do lots of things with it.
It also gives you the ability to mask a web domain to the hosting
service and you'll not notice that is under google sites.
It is Free, if you bother with the "Powered by Google Sites" message at
the bottom of the pages, then you probably want a paid service.

You only need gmail accounts to maintain the pages.

--jmerinoh


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Mike Wills
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 3:15 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: [WEB400] Question on a Basic Website for My Uncle's Business

Okay, this isn't "400 related", but am looking for other web experts
opinions.

My uncle wants a website for his tractor repair business. In all
honestly, a
couple HTML pages and it could be written and done. However, me being
me, I
want to plan for the long-run. Would it be worth me taking a bit more
time
and create it in WordPress pages so it would be easy to make changes
(maybe
even have him make the changes) or would you keep it simple and just do
basic HTML pages and I would have to make any changes he would want in
the
future.

I am leaning towards a core PHP framework in HTML5 (to keep design away
from
content) and basically keep most everything static. But like I said, I
can
see the benefit of a CMS.

What would you do?

--
Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me
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