Website for our camera club

[vintageman]

Our club of 60 members needs a new website and I've been nominated to investigate the possibilities.


We are aiming for:

1. A fresh design that reflects modern methods of communication
2. To help publicise the club and its activities
3. To involve all members in the running of the club and sharing of information;
4. To streamline the administration of communication, membership and payments.

The constraints are;

• low budget for building and on-line presence
• members who will be maintaining their sections have lowish computer skills

Any suggestions for suitable templates, host providers, etc will be gratefully received

Thanks in anticipation


David

 

[Jez2011]

Wordpress

 

[kry10]

I use Joomla as it has been around a lot longer than wordpress and as such has more plugins and addons.

 

[meonshore]

Wordpress

I only took a brief look at Joomla and whilst it might have more plug-ins Wordpress is likely to be more used by members, or more familiar to make edits and updates.

As it will be predominately a members site then I'd go with a simple free template to keep your costs down. As for hosting, I use Westhost but not sure it would suit a single site - just make sure you pick something that can support Wordpress (ie has a mySQL database facility) and/or will enable an install from the control panel. You should be able to pick something up that includes a domain for around £60 for 2 years. I think the only other hosting company I used got bought out by 1-2-3reg. But them, GoDaddy, 1&1 should all have similar offers.

Google also loves Wordpress sites, especially if you use the Yoast plug-in to its full capability, and so from a promotional point of view it would be picked up quickly and re-indexed frequently.

Good luck with it.

 

[Phil V]

Another vote for wordpress, I've just installed a site for a local scout district and they have a small group of users who've never done anything like this before happily adding and editing content, only coming back to me for bug fixes in the theme they're using etc.

The trick is to get the right theme, quite a few themes remove the vanilla capabilities of WP to make them 'simple' but sometimes go too far to create 'difficult to customise'.