winnergirl
New Member
This quote is me (about web design).
"The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee." (You've Got Mail, movie quote.)
I design in HTML and use Dreamweaver. I want to build a web site with many features: forum, classifieds, membership/drectory, and blog service for members to have their own blogs (like WP multisite), and maybe something like Facebook.
I have spend a million hours (will maybe not a million, but hundreds) looking at software and CMS and other options. I have come to some basic conclusions, after huge hours of research. In their categories, Dreamweaver, Joomla, or WordPress would be best for me.
Here is what I can not decide.
1. Do I Dreamweave(r) and add on various software programs and have a basically unmatched web site? (I love HTML tables over CSS tables.)
2. Do I Joomla and find extensions to use and have the site more uniform, but give up a lot of my control (I am not proficient with PHP and CSS, just understand some of the basics?
3. Do I WordPress and find plugins to use and again, give up my control due to low knowledge of PHP/CSS?
I can not even decide which software programs to use, because I can not even decide which way to design the website.
Any help would be so much appreciated. I am going crazy looking at software and looking at options. Perhaps some input will get me off of the fence.
"The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee." (You've Got Mail, movie quote.)
I design in HTML and use Dreamweaver. I want to build a web site with many features: forum, classifieds, membership/drectory, and blog service for members to have their own blogs (like WP multisite), and maybe something like Facebook.
I have spend a million hours (will maybe not a million, but hundreds) looking at software and CMS and other options. I have come to some basic conclusions, after huge hours of research. In their categories, Dreamweaver, Joomla, or WordPress would be best for me.
Here is what I can not decide.
1. Do I Dreamweave(r) and add on various software programs and have a basically unmatched web site? (I love HTML tables over CSS tables.)
2. Do I Joomla and find extensions to use and have the site more uniform, but give up a lot of my control (I am not proficient with PHP and CSS, just understand some of the basics?
3. Do I WordPress and find plugins to use and again, give up my control due to low knowledge of PHP/CSS?
I can not even decide which software programs to use, because I can not even decide which way to design the website.
Any help would be so much appreciated. I am going crazy looking at software and looking at options. Perhaps some input will get me off of the fence.