Posted on 11/29/2012 8:59:51 AM PST by Chickensoup
Am thinking of leaving my much beloved FrontPage to move my old old website to WordPress.
It seems to be a dream come true for a tech-idiot like me. The man who I spoke with stated he could set me up for about 3K. I would be doing the movement of content, and day to day management.
Your thoughts about this software option would be much appreciated and respected.
It seems to be a dream come true for a tech-idiot like me. The man who I spoke with stated he could set me up for about 3K. I would be doing the movement of content, and day to day management.
Your thoughts about this software option would be much appreciated and respected.
Why?
What is your site that it would cost 3k to convert it?
want better formating, more flexibility and better tools. FP is no longer supported out there and now that screens are wider my entire site lists to the left.
The WordPress framework is free. Why do you want to pay someone $3000 to set you up when you can do it yourself. I am not that impressed by it, myself. Do not care for PHP.
Please tell us something about your website and what it is that you want it to do that it does not do now or what it does now that you do not want it to do.
Shadow Ace does the tech ping
I thought Wordpress was just a blogsite. lol
It is a word intensive site. I am not technically adroit?
I setup a blog on WordPress for my high school alumni. Easy to use and a number of features but only compliant from folks was they always had to scroll down to the end to see the new posts and there was no easy way to reverse them so the newest were at the top.
I setup a blog on WordPress for my high school alumni. Easy to use and a number of features but only compliant from folks was they always had to scroll down to the end to see the new posts and there was no easy way to reverse them so the newest were at the top.
Good to know if I set up a post section.
The paradigm is different - with FP, you maintain your web sources on your PC and "publish" as needed, transferring what you changed to the folders on your ISP. Drupal is very different - you manage everything directly on the web page, using the browser as your interface. It's very user friendly, and you can "distribute" the web page contributors - have your users help you build the site - since you can design your site to allow users to make comments, change pages, create pages (based on the relative privileges you assign those users).
so did I, but when I interviewd techies this fall,, most who wanted me to move to the Wordpress blog, which I refuse, there was one who told me that I could use the software. I worry about it being free.
$3000 dollars? You need to talk to someone like me ... 3k sounds a bit much. Of course, that depends on what your site is or does. Look into Joomla or Drupal and see if they could be what you need.
Thank you.
PHP is okay, depending on what you need it for. Personally I prefer C#, but if the server is Linux, PHP is a very good alternative. I use PHP, PERL, C#, and VB.net about an even amount of time. Again, it depends on the server and what the client already has in place.
(It's actually spelled with the exclamation point. I'm not THAT excited about it.)
And I wouldn't pay $3K for it. From what I've read, there are plenty of Joomla! developers out there who will work for cheaper than that. (Mind you, that's based on what I've read recently, not actual experience).
Do it.
It works great. There are a bunch of plugins that will eliminate spammers and such.
It’s very easy to use. It’s not worth it to pay $3000 for someone to set it up. You can do it yourself for free. I mean, if you want someone to spend a few hours setting it up, by all means that is probably worth something to you, but adding content is painless.
Of all the content management systems I’ve run or installed over the years, wordpress is easily the easiest to use and configure. I’ve been running my wp site off of my main website for about two years now and have had zero problems with it.
Most, if not all, open source is free. WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, PHP, MySQL, etc.
I take it you are running on a Linux server?
The software (framework) you need will depend on what your site does.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.