Hi Everyone,

I'm creating a local gig site, and being more a designer then developer, I wanted to get advice on the best way to implement my site design to make it easy for me to update the information. Here's an example of what the site would be doing:

http://your-weekend.net/

At the moment it uses a contentFRM, so when you click on the artists name it loads another html page onto the page. It's too time consuming to create a seperate html page for every gig. I would also like the months to automatically update and the gigs to update once that date has passed.

So whether there is a CMS that would work well with this, I've played around with Wordpress but I don't think it's the best way. Or would it be easier for a developer to program the site to just load up plain text files with the gig info into the site?

Thanks for your time.

Joanna.

wow! Brisbane!

try joomla - it has a module you can install for event management and it's pretty easy to manage other content too
the other way is to write a custom database/management app that would do all the work for you

Hi,

Thanks for your suggestions, I've looked into the Joomla gig calendar but had trouble installing it and so I couldn't play around with it. But I think I may look into getting a custom management system to be able to do exactly want I would like it to. Is there any idea of how much work would be involved in a programmer doing that?

Cheers

I would highly recommend CMS made simple for your project. It has an excellent template integration system, so you create the xhtml template, attach your style sheet, and you're away. An excellent feature of the CMS, apart from being free, and having a really helpful community, is the News Module. This is a standard module that comes with the install, and allows you to publish and unpublish articles based on a pre set date. You can sort the articles in many different ways, and easily define display templates for the articles using smarty. It sounds like it would fit the bill really well for your job, and also has an excellent permissions/user management setup, allowing others to manage or edit the site on different levels which you can define. I am a non coder, only knowing xhtml css etc. and it been a real lifesaver for me, allowing me to complete more complex sites with ease.

http://smarty.php.net
http://cmsmadesimple.org

Hope this can help you!

Hi,

I think I'm going to try and create the site using wordpress, it means I will have to change around the site and some functions, but I will also be able to add extra features which I think will be beneficial. It might take a while but at least I will know how to use Wordpress if I want to use it again in the future. I'll probably be on here alot asking for help! haha.

Thanks to everyone for your input.