Hello all, I’ve been offered the chance to tender for a very large garden plant grower’s website. They have an enormous catalogue, want e-commerce etc.
What are the advantages of using Expression Engine, or other CMS as against a regular Freeway generated site? The client won’t update it, I will and first thoughts it will be about 300 pages.
Thanks for any help or advice.
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Practical. Efficient. Time-saving.
It would be completely unrealistic (not to mention a nightmare) to build and update a 300 page static site. Not that it couldn’t be done but geez, the amount of time you would spend updating it would be prohibitive in the extreme. A static site is simply not an option for something like that. Find a suitable CMS and integrate it with FW and spend the rest of your time doing something fun instead of updating the site.
Todd
On Jun 21, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Terry wrote:
What are the advantages of using Expression Engine, or other CMS as against a regular Freeway generated site? The client won’t update it, I will and first thoughts it will be about 300 pages.
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You may want to look into something that is specifically designed for
shopping carts first, rather than a more generic CMS or blogging
engine. Several people on this list have mentioned Ecwid in breathless
tones, and I would look at that for a site with that many pages.
There are others – far more geek-oriented – like Shopify and
FoxyCart that you could try if you have more elaborate needs than what
Ecwid can do for you.
Walter
On Jun 21, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Todd wrote:
Practical. Efficient. Time-saving.
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