Level 3
what about october cms ?
Jun 1, 2021
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Level 8
Simple web site for a chess club
Does any one knows of a pre-packaged site that i could use for free. I'm hosting one of the oldest clubs in the country, but we are very poor. https://www.woodburychessclub.com/ in case anyone is interested. I don't really have the time to create a CMS for the site, so the people managing (very limited knowledge of computers) could create posts and change a few things on the main page. I created the site that you see, but it is static. I feel to me that some of the CMS out there are too complicated for what i'm looking for. Ideas are welcome.
Level 8
I saw that but it seems very complex. I was looking for something much simpler. Thanks for the suggestion.
Level 75
Do you already know how to program in laravel, if so there are some cms software based on Laravel.
Have you done a GitHub search yet.
Or make it like a discussion forum format.
Level 27
@dan3460 You could use WordPress and one of it's free themes (there are ton of good ones). It's super easy to set up and IMO not that hard for non-IT people to manage pages (when given a little intro).
Level 8
I do know how to code in Laravel. I did a quick search and what i find seems too complicated for the people that will be managing the site. As of now the site is static and i change, when i can, the main page with news or scores. I don't have wordpress on my server. I do manage a wordpress site for my employer and i don't see the people that will manage it been able to do it. They still have a flip-phone that only works on speaker mode for crying out loud!! Maybe i have to bite the bullet and create something for them.
Level 27
I worked with people who didn't even know how to start/shutdown their PC. Just give them a documentation/manual at hand (with a lot of pictures), that explains step-by-step how they can do XYZ. If we are being honest, editing a page in WordPress can be done in 3-5 clicks.
Level 8
@corvs i do understand that once prepared and with correct access a user can modify a page in a few clicks. But there is a lot of preparation that will need to be made by my, installing WP on my server, creating the site and making sure that users have the correct access seems like a task. I was hopping for something really simple.
Level 27
Well, if you never worked with WordPress, then yes. Otherwise that can easily be done in a day. But any other solution will most likely result in more (or at least that much) effort. Don't get me wrong, it's not like I am a big WordPress fan, but for simple web pages it's pretty convenient.
Level 75
@dan3460 the laravel 6 from scratch series has a twitter clone project. Perhaps you could implement that, the code is on Github. But that also is a fairly large project.
I'd just do something like a basic forum type structure for them. Just my opinion. All they would need then is to back up the data. But just an opinion. Laracasts even has a build a forum series also with Github code.
Also there are open source forums available.
Level 54
@dan3460 if you want super simple, then following the wordpress suggestions, i would just go for a hosted wordpress instance on https://wordpress.com/personal/ if you don't want to code a site and want easy admin.
alternatively two more hosted sites to choose from:
Level 8
Thanks for the answers guys. I have been paying for the domain and it is hosted on my sever, i don't want to pay for another hosted instance. I think i just going to create a simple page where these guys can update one of the sections of the front page.
Thanks again for the suggestions.
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