Suggestions for website

[SuepaFly]

I'm thinking about starting a website and I would need the site as core of my business. Basically, this business would have lots of reviews on lots of different things, sorted in like maybe 10-20 catagories.

I want the site to be able to receive reviews and automatically post them, and have the ability to possibly handle large amounts of reviews. It would also be nice to be able to post the top reviews of each catagory and such. What sort of programs and or/web design stuff would I need to do this? Would a forum be best for this, or more a review site (like barnes and noble where you can review books and rate them)? Does anyone have an idea of about how much webspace a place like Anandtech uses?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Sounds like a job for a full blown CMS (content management system). There is tiki, there are the *nukes (phpnuke, postnuke, etc.. but they tend to have a bad rep), those are all that I really know of off hand.

A website "like" anandtech is a bit vague, you could have two very similar sites and yet their disk usage could differ greatly for lots of reasons. Starting off I would say a couple hundred MB would be more than enough, but after so many months or years, the junk starts to pile up, the images start to add up, and you might need a gig or two or three or whatever. I wouldn't worry about that really, though, you can always upgrade your hosting plan or whatever.

 

[SuepaFly]

What would be the advantages/disadvantages of the software you mentioned (CMS) vs something resembling a forum for people to post? Like cost, setup, ease of use, professional appearance...?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Well, with a CMS you can actually build a website, and have various data propogate all around to different sections of the website in different ways. A forum is a forum, but definitely not a good website (or even a website at all really).