Creating a website for my uncle

[allies]

Alright. So I have some limited website devolopment (see here). Anyways, my uncle wants a website for his consulting company, and I offered to help him out. It's going to be a bit better than my website (mine is basically... barebones and hasn't been updated forever) as I'm going to incorporate some CSS to get everything nice.

The thing is, my uncle wants to have a "News" or "Current Events" section. He has no website experience and I don't think he even knows how to edit a page/upload it to the FTP. I was wondering if there are hosts that would allow my uncle to easily add entries to this section if I set up the website completely. I don't know if I'm framing this question correctly, but if someone gets the gist of what I'm saying, suggest a host/how to actually do it.

Thanks guys and gals.

 

[Crusty]

Well, the easiest way is to use a database driven website. Many hosts offer PHP/mySQL hosting which would allow you to either a) write a custom website, b) use something like wordpress to handle the news/current events, or c) use an all in one CMS like Joomla.

Wordpress is just a blog software that can be easily skinned with CSS so you can integrate it directly into the rest of the website. A CMS is a content management system that usually has a full featured web interface for editing/adding content to the website.

Using wordpress you'd still have to hand code the rest of the website, whereas with a CMS like Joomla you'd use the web based control panel to add/edit all the content.

My suggestion would be to use Joomla, it's easy to setup and fairly easy to use once you can get used to the interface.

 

[allies]

Crusty - thanks for the pointers. I think I'll probably try to work figure out wordpress and then explain it to my uncle. I'd like to have some stuff that isn't really cookiecutter website. If that fails, I'll look further into Joomla.

Your response was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again!

 

[jjones]

I'd probably go with Joomla too. It uses tinyMCE I think so if he's at least capable of doing a word doc, he'll be able to post news and events including photos and links pretty easily.