My first web page was back around 1994, hand coded, learning HTML by trial and error. In retrospect we had things easy.
That was followed by a number of years of Dreamweaver, a program that worked very, very well for me for some moderately big sites, then later several years of Wordpress based sites because it was fast and easy.
It's time again to upgrade our sites, and what I'm hoping to find is an open-source package that will do what Dreamweaver did, but bring that ease of use into an age of CMS and responsive design. My specific goals are below.
[More after the break.]
Ultimately I guess what I'm looking for is the Holy Grail - a program or application that will let me get something professional up and running fairly fast, then leave lots of room for tweaking and improving any and all aspects of it.
(Score: 3, Touché) by BK on Monday December 28 2015, @02:47PM
So, if I'd read your whole post first, I would have seen you'd tried Joomla once. You liked it and it's what you want but you don't want to actually have to learn how to use it. You want powerful tools but don't want to actually learn how to use them [youtube.com].
Honestly, I think your best bet is pay a developer to make you a site in a CMS and you can update the content as needed.
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 2) by Popeidol on Wednesday December 30 2015, @07:45AM
Pretty much this. I'm in this situation at my current job. The prior executive director was very particular about the website which means that all changes are emailed off to a third party who does them in dreamweaver and uploads them. It's a few dozen static pages, and it does nothing more advanced than a few webforms and embedded youtube videos.
When the next budget arrives I'm going to recommend we put all the content in WP/some other CMS and pay a web design guy to redo the theme every few years. It'll turn out much cheaper, make updating content simple, and if you're paying a pro to do the theme it doesn't have to 'look decidedly wordpress'.