CMS dilemma
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- spifflink
So, I have been given the (dubious) honor of redoing my father's website, as well as my two brothers, all of whom are fairly well known fine artists (in certain circles). His old site was pretty well designed and used some odd combination of wordpress and expression engine, but these three guys are pretty computer illiterate. The brother closest to me in age, figured out his word press blog (his site was set up sort of the same way by the same guy), but just barely. They couldn't figure out how to update anything, even after me showing them. So in this new site, I am wondering whether to use wordpress at all (it may be a bit easier on them than the whole EE thing), or do a custom one, or use something like CushyCMS, but the other requirement besides have a news blog is that I have to put in an image gallery that will most likely be organized into categories (this is a lot of images, like 35-40 years of work). I am having trouble trying to wedge that into wordpress type site. Any recommendations at all? Also, any examples of awesome image galleries that do a decent job organizing and displaying a fairly large number of images? thanks!
- welded0
I've never used it, but what about something like Gallery that's designed around photo gallery sites?
http://gallery.menalto.com/
- airey0
wordpress. the change in the backend admin area from even 6 months ago to now is amazing (vs 2.8.1 came out a few days ago) + you can always edit the admin area to only show what they need.
the key for your issue would be to look through (the 3 below are excellent from personal experience but of course there's millions others):
• themeforest
• woothemes
• elegant themesand find a gallery theme that does the leg work for you: resizing, organising, category's, seo, the lot - effectively saving you the headache.
expression engine is awesome but if you want to get in and out with the least effort and money / time spent then go wordpress.
- acescence0
maybe look into using Flickr as the upload/organization tool, then use the API to get the images on the site. you can cache locally so you're not relying on flickr's servers for every hit to the site, and you could set it up so it all happens on flickr or even a desktop uploader and they don't touch the site itself.
- gosche0
super easy to setup & to use
http://indxr.net/