can anyone recommend a cms?

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Originally Posted by dpmmedia

If you're just starting with php/mysql just worry about the programming not installing. If you're going to run your own webserver, then yeah worry about it, but otherwise put it on the back burner and concentrate on writing scripts.

Just write scripts and run them on your server.

Yeah, Im much more mathematically orientated, that's why PS was harder I reckon. But I have put way more time into learning to program though.

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Thanks for the advice. Yeah I just installed everything cause the Sitepoint book told me too so that I could test my scripts on my own machine and not have to upload it to my web server.

I don't know. Maybe one of these days I'll get motivated and learn it...or I'll just get someone else to do it for a fee and just concentrate on designing.

It saves me an incredible amount of time testing scripts locally.

With PS I think you have to have some design talent to create really good designs. Sure, I can make a web page layout that looks professional, but if you told me to create a design for a radio station that had to have a funky rocknroll look I'd be srewed. I was aways good at maths at school, and pretty bad at design :)

Well I definitely wish I were better with programming. There is a much higher demand for programmers/developers here in Lexington, KY then there is for Designers.

Same with here in the okanagan (the valley when I live), nearly 100 web design firms and all of them outsource their PHP work.

Most of it to me and one of my partners these days.

Programmers are not in demand here unfortunatey.

Businesses want people who can design and program :)

Try phpfusion small easy to use. lot of community support.
U can also view various CMS at :
http://opensourcecms.com/

I'm finding textpattern gets easier everyday. It has a pretty big learning curve I will say though, for me anyway. Some might think its very easy, but I was completely lost to begin with.

i do layout and graphics as well as programming but doing both to a very high level of quality is no easy task. My forte is code, not design. :P If you want a CMS for a blog try nucleus.

http://rodin.lot23.com/

I've enjoyed working with modifying Rodin (minus figuring out mod_rewrite, which I did over and over again and the time I redid it and it actually worked looked like all the other times >_<) to create a CMS for my cheats website. I don't know PHP or MySQL so it's a good learning experience.

As for design, I've always had designing then making XHTML and CSS sites as my forte (though I'm slower at it than our friggen Mozart of making things really good really fast, Emancipator ;)), because I don't know much coding. Minute amount of Java, and I can name a few PHP functions, like str_replace. I guess there's not much more to PHP than functions, etc. (all the basics of coding) and it's somewhat cross-language, but putting it together to create a CMS is not what I consider a small task for someone not following a tutorial or anything.

Ruby on Rails. Or maybe Drupal.