web gurus - help!

[ratspike]

I'm trying to help the shelter with their website, getting the domain turned over to them, finding hosting and doing something about the godawfully ugly site itself. Making a new site is easy but finding a way to make the adoptable dog pages simple to update is making my head hurt

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[ratspike]

Definitely no on the ASP. That's just what's there and it's awful. Because their needs from a website are pretty simple my first thought was to just build everything in plain 'ol html with something plugged in to generate the dog pages, but yeah, I really don't know shit. With enough trial and error cut and paste I can get through customizing Wordpress themes and the like. Would customizing Joomla be totally over my head do you think? The director would like to add a blog and some other things but would Joomla be overkill or can it be as complex or as simple as you need it to be?

I bet you can suggest reliable hosting too. ;)

[ratspike]

hmmmm...I suspect it would end in tears for me. :D

I found a fantastic Wordpress theme that I'm 99.9% sure would be perfect after some tweaking but the director couldn't really visualize the end result so the idea was mostly shot down. I may just go back to that, build the site and do my best to convince her it's A Good Thing. If I don't then nothing will ever get done.

It just can't ever be simple can it? ;)

[lightworship]

i know i've said it a hundred times you sir do good work. I know nothing about this sort of thing, i know a web guy i'm going to copy and paste this in an email to him, we'll see if it can be easy.

[zancro]

Happy Birthday Weekend!

[zancro]

Happy Birthday.