CMS Tutorials

[wizard210]

Hey guys,
My grandma who owns a realty company here in town asked me to do a website for her. I'm looking for Content management system tutorials. I found a decent one on devshed but i'm looking for others. Or if someone knows of another better way to do a real estate website please let me know. I'm up for suggestions. Thanks!

[Nightfire]

What serverside language are you using? Instead of writing your own, you might wanna download a cms if you have no experience in serverside stuff

[wizard210]

I've worked with PHP and am comfortable using it so if anything that's what I would go with. I would use ASP but I hate it. I have looked into some CMS for download as well. I'm just covering all my options here. I'm looking for something very simple that my grandma can understand. And something that is very dependable. Me building it myself is kinda the direction I'm looking at, but like I said before I'm up for anything.

[Grant Palin]

It's not very hard. As long as you've got working PHP experience (page layout, navigation, user authentication, data input and retrieval, etc), you should be fine.

I recently wrote a blog site for my own use (which is similar to a CMS), and it was not very hard. In fact, it was a good learning experience for me. I already knew page layout principles, as well as basic data retrieval, and I learned how to do data validation and input and user authentication on the way.

If you want to take a look at it and get some ideas, the link is in my signature ("Grant's Rants").

Of course, you could download a pre-written package such as MovableType or Wordpress; I've tried these, and they have lots of good features, but it's nice to write your own and have total control over it from the beginning (ie you know exactly what section of code does what). And you can add whatever features you like. Your call.