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09/24/2005 10:30:24 AM · #1 |
Has anyone bought a pre-canned web template?
I have my own web server and have attempted to make my own site. I have never been too interested or very skilled in web design. Problem is, it looks very amateur.
I want to get the polished look, will continue to host my own site, and I have the web design tools necessary.
I see web templates for sale for $40.00 - $60.00 but I am unsure what I need to have once I order one. I run an Apache web server.
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09/24/2005 05:53:31 PM · #2 |
| i had a web dev buy a template, the way it had been put together was hideous! |
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09/24/2005 06:01:28 PM · #3 |
I've recently been messing around with a program called postnuke (google it). It's pretty cool. It's basically a shell program and then people have developed modules (added on software) to go with it. There are about a billion different themes and modules and different things you can do, and it's all free. Elementary schools use it alot because it has things like:
An Events Calendar
A forum
User Registration
Photo Galleries with self generating thumbnails
E-mail system
Private message system
User ability to post "News" to the main page which is seperated into searchable categories.
You'll need a database in order to use it, and there's a learning curve, but it might be worth looking into. |
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10/07/2005 10:26:46 PM · #4 |
If you're looking at this still then 2 things you should definitely look at are:
Mambo CMS (Content Management System) and
Gallery (//gallery.menalto.com)
Together you can built not only a fresh and easily updateable website, but there are alos loads of free development modules being designed. Try searching for mambo and template in Google.
One of the modules is Gallery so you can easily integrate a photo database into the site. |
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10/07/2005 10:44:04 PM · #5 |
Thanks, it looks very nice. I will give it a try.
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10/08/2005 12:12:31 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by samchad:
If you're looking at this still then 2 things you should definitely look at are:
Mambo CMS (Content Management System) and
Gallery (//gallery.menalto.com)
Together you can built not only a fresh and easily updateable website, but there are alos loads of free development modules being designed. Try searching for mambo and template in Google.
One of the modules is Gallery so you can easily integrate a photo database into the site. |
Actually, skip Mambo and go with Joomla!. The core development team left the Mambo project and created Joomla! when Miro started to get more involved with the project.
All (or most) of the Mambo components will work with Joomla!, since it is all the same code.
//www.joomla.org
Message edited by author 2005-10-08 00:13:15. |
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10/08/2005 12:54:36 AM · #7 |
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