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 p.2 #4 · Website Primer ... Pro's & Con's ??? | |
I'm chuckling a bit about the OP here writing off Wordpress's engineering four days after posting a list of web-related buzzwords and not being sure about the difference between "HTML" and "CMS".
Wordpress is fine, ExpressionEngine is fine. Wordpress is free, ExpressionEngine is not. Chances are good Wordpress is going to have a turnkey template and plugin setup that'll work for you. ExpressionEngine is often going to require custom programming to get functionality you want or the template features/design you want because the platform development activity is absolutely MINUSCULE compared to Wordpress. That's not a dig on EE, it's just a fact.
EE is probably a bit more industrial-strength, but there are HUGE sites being run on top of Wordpress right now as well. That said, EE is also going to cost you a lot more.
Wordpress has made huge strides in the past few years with regard to the "engineering." Updating Wordpress is really magical, is done entirely from the GUI and is (in most cases) one-click easy.
Seriously tho, you should really find someone who knows their butt from a hole in the ground to lead you through this stuff. Your posts are coming off completely confused and as a person who used to do this stuff for a living, I'd MUCH rather a client approach me completely in the dark than with all kinds of misconceptions and half-learned concepts rattling around in their brain. Not because I want to snow them over... it's just incredibly time consuming and frustrating to unravel the ball of yarn in their brain and fight the often ill-conceived ideas they've convinced themselves over.
Never mind that it's silly to need to know how the machine works to make an informed decision in choosing your web service provider(s). I can understand the curiosity, but this is a lot like heading into a web design forum and asking everyone "I'm about to get married and need to hire a wedding photographer, teach me all about f-stops, focal lengths, depth of field, circle of confusion, the difference between Nikon, Canon and Leica, silver prints vs. digital, color vs. black and white, how to print a photo in a dark room, how an inkjet printer works, etc." You don't ask to learn Objective-C before buying either Lightroom or Aperture, right?
If this is a business-related web site, do yourself a huge favor and shop for (and hire) a developer you're comfortable with, explain what you want to achieve (note I didn't say what technology you want to use) and ask for his recommendation on how to proceed with something that fits within your budget. You'd hire this person the same way you'd hire a plumber or electrician or designer for your business cards... interviews, portfolios/past work, etc. Find someone who you feel comfortable working with.
From the developer's perspective, I'm INCREDIBLY wary about a client who comes in with a fixed idea of what technology they want to use (Wordpress, EE, Joomla, PHP, Ruby, whatever) unless we've worked together before or we're trying to integrate into a specific technology stack that's present at the company already. A client with no real web knowledge who mandates that I use something specific (especially if it's not what I'd personally recommend) is going to get a polite "thanks, but I'm too busy to take your work at this time."
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) may know just enough to be dangerous to the process ... but I've been around the block enough to know how to be a good client and follow the lead of a good hire ... assuming I know enough to differentiate between a good hire and a hack ... i.e. Bridezilla meets GWAC 
@ Horse & Buggy vs. Car ... is this loading speed or growth potential or ease of use or all ?