To CMS or not to CMS?

gord

gord

gord

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Well, its come to the point where we want to update our company website and I am a one man team.

I recently did one of the group's sites using Interspire Website Publisher. It's a good product, but has some drawbacks, such as a lack of login area.

Basically, I am stuck,

Do I build a bespoke site?
Do I find a CMS that can actually do what I want?

The last bit is where you guys may be able to help. Its difficult to evaluate a million CMS options. Does anyone have any ideas for the following requirements:

Full control over the homepage (this will be a jquery rotator advertising the key areas)
Mega menu navigation (pref auto populated with category/pages)
About 8 categories, with 20 pages in each (searchable).
Registration for members access content
Contact form

I've looked at Wordpress as an alternative but it feels so Bloggie.. I know it is quite flexible, but I don't know if it can do all the things I want.

Any help/suggestions/thoughts much appreciated.
 
Thanks for that. Wordpress is certainly looking like a great option, especially being free. Still need to sell it to my boss, especially as its a different CMS from one a sister company recently implemented.

I saw this site posted by someone else: http://themeforest.net/

Very impressed by some of the designs on there and how much they have worked with wordpress. I'm tempted infact to take one of the themes there that has incorporated the majority of jquery etc I want and use it as a base.
 
Wassat Slinky?! You've caught me off guard with your crazy post!

Is that a WP customisation?
 
Yeh, I've given it some thought. I saw a site the other day that teaches you how to make your own CMS so I am thinking about following that to see how it goes.

Time frame is tight, but extendible if it's worth doing.
 
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