On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:35:25AM +0100, Anthony Anson wrote:
Chris G wrote:
I've been around this loop before and not really got anywhere but still there's no harm in asking.
Is there anything as simple and straightforward as Wordpress for creating web sites that *isn't* a blogging platform? There are many much more heavyweight CMS/Portal systems such as Drupal and Joomla but there really doesn't seem to be a site creation application as simple to use as Wordpress.
I'm not acquainted with Wordpress, so I can't compare. It depends on what you mean by 'simple and straightforward' - I use a text program, and there's nothing so simple and straightforward as that.
Quite, I use my own reStructuredText to HTML utilities when I just want to get information onto a web page. It removes the burden of doing the HTML syntax and I can concentrate on the content. It doesn't however generate 'pretty' web pages.
However, I guess you mean 'effortless' or WYSIWYG, the second of which I have not much experience of. The odd page I've made by conversion in Open Office has been acceptable, and if you have a windows box or emulator, Dreamweaver seems OK and doesn't make bloated pages - indeed, I think both Open Office and Dreamweaver render to XML.
No, it's not the 'effortless' or WYSIWYG I want particularly, it's the availability of lots of ready made layouts and templates that I want so that I can type in some content and see a nicely laid out result with menus, tabs, whatever without having to do the underlying code to generate them.