[mdlug] Rapid website development

[Mark Montague]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 3:00 PM, "Michael ORourke" <mrorourke at earthlink.net> 
wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think a Wiki is going to give us the 
> look & feel of a business website.  So I would rather trade off the ease of 
> maintainability, for a professional looking template driven website.

Why do you say that?  Maintainability and professional appearance are 
not mutually exclusive values.  Certainly a wiki is not going to give 
you the range of options that Joomla or Drupal would, but for simple web 
sites many people successfully use wikis.  The key is picking a wiki 
package that looks good and does not force visitors to deal with 
wiki-related controls on every page.  PmWiki has been popular for this 
in the past, see: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/SuccessStories

I'm not trying to convince you to use a wiki, but if your site does not 
need anything complex and if it is really important to have a site that 
can be maintained by people who are not web professionals, do look into 
wikis further.

                Mark Montague
                markmont at umich.edu