New website

[dany-on-demand]

We need to look presentable for the Saturday event.

[hwgprojects]

@Dany0

Happy to help with this- websites are my day job.

Want my advice? Get bootstrap theme and/or Wordpress. Customise and add good pictures and content. You'll be done in a few hours. Many companies do this for money xD

[neppermint]

I wouldn't be terribly worried about the website for the moment

[rakiru]

Wordpress

HELL. FUCKING. NO.

Yes, hello, I also make websites for a living.

[hwgprojects]

@rakiru

That's fair. I don't use WP much myself, and it's too bulky. However, It is easy to install. I was thinking of speed.

[rakiru]

Sure, it is incredibly fast at getting you hacked.

[hwgprojects]

@rakiru

Yes, it is targeted a lot. However, if you use the appropriate precautions then it's not so bad. Anyway, what should be used for the new site?

[NotAFile]

@Warp00 I would recommend HTML and CSS. JS too if we absolutely need it. Kind of obscure, I know.

stupid jokes aside, I doubt we need any more than a static website, except for a forum, for which we can't choose the framework anyway. If we really need a dynamic website, I would vouch for Lua *cgi for simple stuff or whatever Lua framework is most popular if we need more than that.

[hwgprojects]

@NotAFile

http://grabaperch.com/ May be what is the best.

[NotAFile]

@Warp00 have a look at something like http://ultros.io/.

even a quarter of that site would be perfect, and could be implemented using only static pages. No need to pull in a whole CMS just for a simple website.

[hwgprojects]

@NotAFile Maybe. Anyway, not up to me. Perch isn't exactly a CMS in the conventional sense.