What do you use to design your poker website?

luckylucky

I've got in the humour again to start updating my website www.firbolg.com.

I want to overhaul it and change the content management system I use. I'm using Movable type but find it too complicated. Just wondering what type of stuff other poker players with websites use.

RedJoker

nm, didn't notice one of the links taking me off the site, thanks |.Murderer.|

AdMMM

Can only assume that's a mispost?

Anyway, with regards blogs. The easiest program out there is Wordpress which has fantastic plugin support and some great features to boot. There's also a massive community using Wordpress meaning tech support is excellent. There are many sites dedicated to Wordpress themes, a quick Google lists the best of them.

Best of all Wordpress is free and so are most of the themes and addons, so setting it up and customising it to how you want it is a cheap and easy process.

Mr. Flibble

Yep, I'd go with wordpress. Easy to use and looks good. You don't have to get too close to php and html unless you want to.

RoundTower

I use my seven year old brother. Check it out! Least I don't spam it though.

luckylucky

|.Murderer.| wrote: »

Can only assume that's a mispost?

Anyway, with regards blogs. The easiest program out there is Wordpress which has fantastic plugin support and some great features to boot. There's also a massive community using Wordpress meaning tech support is excellent. There are many sites dedicated to Wordpress themes, a quick Google lists the best of them.

Best of all Wordpress is free and so are most of the themes and addons, so setting it up and customising it to how you want it is a cheap and easy process.

Mr. Flibble wrote: »

Yep, I'd go with wordpress. Easy to use and looks good. You don't have to get too close to php and html unless you want to.

Cheers Lads.

irishpokeronlin

wpress or custom cms ftw

ocallagh

If all you are going to do is write a blog entry every few days then Wordpress is not bad, but if you're looking to write some custom templates/plugins, or even to manage multiple sections of a site stay clear of WP. I spent 4 weeks trying to integrate Wordpress and also WPMU into a system. It was all the backend PHP stuff. The code is pretty horrible. Granted it's free, but how on earth anything built with paper foundations manages to grow to such a popular blogging tool is beyond me. The designers who do all the front end stuff should get full credit. They did a lot of work making it easy to install and use, but the backend is just horrible and in 2 years or whenever you want to do some custom stuff you'll seriously regret using WP. Arguments for WP are the thousands of plugins and templates... but they're all ****e. The template system is ridiculous. It mixes PHP with html/css/images and leaves your system open to hundreds of potential security holes. The plugins will naturally have to be coded by PHP, but there are so many beginners writing these plugins it's hard to find the decent ones. In short, stay clear of WP. Aside form the security holes presented by the template system, the system itself (out of the box) is vulnerable. Our WPMU database was hacked over 4 times in a month before we decided to scrap the system. Basic things like Lack of throttling and captchas were the main problem.

In summary avoid WP. Either go with a hosted blogging system like blogspot.com or explore other CM systems.

Out of all the other CM systems I recommend Expression Engine. I've worked with Expression Engine for the past 2 years, and developed over 2 dozen sites with it. It is one of the best content management systems around and I've worked with most of them! It has a large community and great support. It's free for personal use (although I've never been pulled up on a lack of a commercial license:)), very easy to install and is fully scalable. Out of the box it does everything you need, but if you want you can totally customise it. It's a far superior product than WP. It is also much more secure. In fact, comparing the two systems is not even fair!

Do a search on Drupal, Joomla, Expression Engine, Wordpress etc and youll see what they all offer.

luckylucky

ocallagh wrote: »

If all you are going to do is write a blog entry every few days then Wordpress is not bad, but if you're looking to write some custom templates/plugins, or even to manage multiple sections of a site stay clear of WP. I spent 4 weeks trying to integrate Wordpress and also WPMU into a system. It was all the backend PHP stuff. The code is pretty horrible. Granted it's free, but how on earth anything built with paper foundations manages to grow to such a popular blogging tool is beyond me. The designers who do all the front end stuff should get full credit. They did a lot of work making it easy to install and use, but the backend is just horrible and in 2 years or whenever you want to do some custom stuff you'll seriously regret using WP. Arguments for WP are the thousands of plugins and templates... but they're all ****e. The template system is ridiculous. It mixes PHP with html/css/images and leaves your system open to hundreds of potential security holes. The plugins will naturally have to be coded by PHP, but there are so many beginners writing these plugins it's hard to find the decent ones. In short, stay clear of WP. Aside form the security holes presented by the template system, the system itself (out of the box) is vulnerable. Our WPMU database was hacked over 4 times in a month before we decided to scrap the system. Basic things like Lack of throttling and captchas were the main problem.

In summary avoid WP. Either go with a hosted blogging system like blogspot.com or explore other CM systems.

Out of all the other CM systems I recommend Expression Engine. I've worked with Expression Engine for the past 2 years, and developed over 2 dozen sites with it. It is one of the best content management systems around and I've worked with most of them! It has a large community and great support. It's free for personal use (although I've never been pulled up on a lack of a commercial license:)), very easy to install and is fully scalable. Out of the box it does everything you need, but if you want you can totally customise it. It's a far superior product than WP. It is also much more secure. In fact, comparing the two systems is not even fair!

Do a search on Drupal, Joomla, Expression Engine, Wordpress etc and youll see what they all offer.

cheers for this.

I've actually started work on a new website. It's going to be a bit more than a blog. I'm trying out Joomla, I've only been at it a few days but so far I quite like it. I find it much easier to use than movable Type, of course it helps that I installed it myself from day one. I'll give that a chance and see how I get on with that. If I like it then I will probably use it on firbolg.com too.