[hicksjt]

I am creating a website that will track race car results, schedule, points, photos, and news. This (weekly) information will obviously need to be generated and maintained by some type of Content Management System. My knowledge of a CMS is low - I'm more of a designer - so I'm not sure if there is a system that tailors specially to my needs but hopefully one can provide the intended outcome.

While I realize there are tons of these available on the Web, especially free, I would prefer to shop for a professional CMS application. Not one that can only be accessed online but edited on a computer, kind of like Dreamweaver. I have searched a great deal and have come across some software but to have help from others enhances the process. As a matter of fact, this site's software offers the exact thing I'm trying to accomplish. You can see an example by looking to the top-left. It's kind of a like a community of race results all around. But unfortunately it does have drawbacks. For instance, any race car news or race results can be uploaded and recorded but it is saved on the company's servers and not on my hosting package. Also, the feeds would work by inserting the information in their website and routing it on the my site but the information is stored elsewhere, not really comfortable with that since I already have a database. Any suggestions on such as system?

Thanks for any feedback.

 

[Sequal7]

you could try Nuke Evolution CMS it is based upon phpBB and phpNuke and it is easily configurable and cutomizable with a ton of templates. The top left link is simply a RSS feed from a site that posts them, you can add that to pretty much any site you wanted to.

I personally think that it is far better to write your own php script and use a MySQL database to draw the page content. I create alot of sites that use this type of content management, you can view one example here, the site was designed using Dreamweaver, and the content is placed into a MySQL database, then output onto the page when rendered. The content for every page is all changeable using an admin interphase, and addional pages are created offline in Dreamweaver as requested by the client.