[Hidden-tech] website maintenance

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 8 Jan 2010 16:56:30 -0500 "Kevin Phillips" <kevin at kpitconsulting.com> wrote:

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> My Brother in Law has a website www.classgrass.com that he and his staff
> just do not have the technical ability or time to maintain and he knows it
> is wasting money. I can take it and move to my hosting but my ability to
> make changes are basic.
> Is there anyone here that could take pictures and text emailed to them and
> add it to the site or can anyone recommend software in Fantastico that is
> soooo easy even a cave man can do it !!!
> He would like to have customers sign up to a small mailing list for specials
> etc.
> Maybe I should be looking at Wordpress and MailChimp ?

Yes.  No one really does bare metal HTML anymore.  Everything is some
flavor of CMS.  WordPress is good for a small site with a single
maintainer (or very small group of maintainers),  Joomla! or Drupal is
better for something like a larger organization with many people
maintaining different parts of the site.

For the mailing list, I'd recomend Mailman as a separate 'site' (eg
mailman.classgrass.com).
  
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