Mini sites

[DotCom9]

Hi All,

What is the quickest way to get a mini site up and running with about 5 pages and looks decent too.

Thanks.

 

[whitebark]

Use a content management system like wordpress or find a nice free html template and plug your information in and upload it...

 

[geesh]

Wordpress, all the way. The plug-ins are priceless, and in the amount of time you'd be messing with html, you'll have the site completed with wordpress. Host it yourself on your own domain, and add regular content.

 

[@dminDailydotcom]

Wordpress is definitely the way to go, there are literally millions of themes available (many free) and the feature set that is available by use of plugins is endless, a few tweaks and you can have a very professional site up and running in no time flat. I personally use it for all of my minisites.. just remember, content is king

 

[Robbie]

Hi All,

What is the quickest way to get a mini site up and running with about 5 pages and looks decent too.

Thanks.

I use noomle.com - Free service.

Here are some my sites as examples.

CheapRims.us
CheapCarpet.us
ElectricRazors.us
ChocolateSauce.info

 

[barefoottech]

Joomla or Wordpress (although wordpress is primarily a blogging package)

 

[NetOctave]

Hi All,

What is the quickest way to get a mini site up and running with about 5 pages and looks decent too.

Thanks.

If it is a single site - wordpress
if multiple sites - drupal. Drupal has inbuilt multi site capability. This makes it easy while upgrading. And with any content management system, you can expect frequent security fixes and other upgrades.

 

[husanet]

Wordpress, all the way

 

[DotCom9]

Thanks for the replies guys.

 

[interestedenough]

I use Drupal (another CMS) in a multisite environment (they all share the same file system). Can you use wordpress with shared files/database?

 

[rodriguez]

I like Graffiti CMS and Word press both are easy to install and have plenty of support for them. For 5 pages yea either one of these should work.

 

[interestedenough]

If it is a single site - wordpress
if multiple sites - drupal. Drupal has inbuilt multi site capability. This makes it easy while upgrading. And with any content management system, you can expect frequent security fixes and other upgrades.

I had not read this; I do also use drupal for multisite, although my sites just use the same code base but not the database.

The other way is to use site installers provided by the hosting companies... The most common is the fantastico installer... I actually don't like those installers because your hands are tied when it comes to adding new modules or themes/templates.