I have a website that runs on Freeway Pro 3.5 (website for a non-profit organization). I’d like to do a total redesign as we need something more dynamic than we have now.
Although I created the current website I’m not a web designer, so I’m looking around a bit for a professional designer who can do the job for me.
The website must be designed in Freeway Pro (so I can make future changes in the design myself - yes I will upgrade to a newer version :-)) and I want to integrate CMS Builder (www.interactivetools.com) so all content pages can be updated easily by nore people.
I have to inform my board members what budget we need for this. What would be a realistic budget? The website consists of some static pages, a webshop (linked to www.mals-e.com), and a news section (currently run with Article Manager 2 but to be replaced by CMS Builder). I’d like to integrate a poll, RSS import, and some other features but not too many bells and whistles. But I’d like to have a professional looking website.
The website is www.drumcorpseurope.org. The news section is in 5 languages and created with Article Manager 2. The static pages (all pages in the left menu) are built in Freeway and have more or less the same look as the news pages.
I don’t use CMS Builder yet, but I love Interactive Tools and their support. As far as I understand, you can design just anything you want in any design tool. You just define where on the page where the CMSB contest will appear.
I haven’t looked any farther than watching the intro video and on the face of it there should be no problem getting Freeway to work with it. The one step they gloss over is installing the CMS onto your site but sounds like it more or less would be straitght forward, though you already have it.
The time consuming part is learning the CMS menu options. The easy part is copying and pasting the generated php from the CMS into your Freeway page.