Use wordpress blogging software, but instead of creating the blog, just use the page creation function.
I surf the internet, and the majority of big sites are clearly running Wordpress, and just using a specific template over it to make their site look unique.
Here is what you do - go to your host and install the Wordpress install, or ask them to do it. Then just start screwing with it to see how pages and menus work with the default template. Just write “Here I am,” to see how the text displays and where, for stuff like titles and bodies. It is very intuitive and you should pick it up quickly. Then look at the free templates out there, and find one which captures what you want the site to look like, and install it using the menu in the Wordpress backend to find your way to the templates page.
It all sounds very complicated, but nobody showed me anything, and I figured it out just by taking the first step of installing Wordpress and trying it out. Everything just revealed itself as I used it.
a free CMS like Joomla says tons of time and gives ability to modify on the fly
I tried to do Wordpress but
I wanted to build a menu structured archive for a bunch of theme-based drawings/cartoons I’d drawn along with some writings. It was a simple tree-structure in conception.
It was taking forever to load the images using their database access controls. (I have to keep it simple since I’m something of a bat-brain and barely capable of that.)
Anyway, I got frustrated and quit for a while—but before I got back to it google had commandeered the “.dev” extention—if I recall correctly and I couldn’t retrieve my previous work.
Sob story I know, but someone later told me that Wordpress was the wrong platform for what I wanted to do. I’m just passing this along; I hate WordPress like I hate google.
Anybody got any ideas about retrieving those old files from the backups? Are there any templates or procedures for archive menus—like say the old Mcmaster-Carr front page?
I could forgive Wordpress.