I'm working on a site for my son's basketball team. I worked up a "template" in xhtml. It uses no tables and for the navigation, I used this vertical menu: http://tutorials.alsacreations.com/modelesmenus/vd1.htm. My son is a senior, so I want to use a cms so that it can be maintained easily by non-technical parents after we're gone.
It's hosted at GoDaddy.com on their Linux servers. They have a long list of open source cms, blogs, galleries, etc... that you can request to be loaded in your area. After looking through all of them, I decided on Joomla, but am having trouble figuring out if I can incorporate my template into this system. I feel like I'm going to have to go in a "tweak" several pages to fit the template. At this time, with a 40+ hour/week real job plus a kid who's a senior, looking for the right university, and in high school & club soccer and high school basketball, I just don't have time.
I have aspirations of building my own cms at some point, but when is anyone's guess. Part of it is a confidence issue. My company has started sending my to PHP/MysQL classes and conferences because they are in a big push to convert all of our Perl code to PHP, so maybe soon I will have the confidence to do it. My weak area is in using classes. I think that's really important to learn to use correctly to make your code more efficient.
Anyway... Any ideas on Joomla! or another CMS that would be more pure XHTML friendly? I don't have to pick one from their list. I can install my own, it's just easier to use one that pre-installed.
Thanks a bunch,
Alisa
