webmaster1 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Hi Freaks, I'm need to build a basic product catalog (automobiles) that does not require a shopping cart are any additional functionality aside from viewing it and possibly filtering the results (not an essential). I've searched for a few free open source solutions but I can't make heads or tails out of which ones might suit me best or which ones I actually require. Can anyone reccomend a suitable free software solution? Would it be better just attempting to build this myself from sratch? The client will be updating the catalog themselves so it needs to have a user freindly update/edit section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhodesa Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 If you are looking for a CMS, Drupal and Joomla are pretty popular. And I know both of them have several catalog type plugins to choose from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webmaster1 Posted November 14, 2008 Author Share Posted November 14, 2008 I installed JOOMLA via my CPANEL but I instantly took a disliking to it. :-\ Is it true that I can't apply JOOMLA to just one of my pages and that it needs to be applied to my entire site? From a design perspective it seems restrictive. I can always spot a site that uses Joomla when I see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkerAngel Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 I am with you about not really preferring Joomla, but I don't quite understand what your question means about having to have it be the whole site... I mean no, you can have it just be a portion of your site no problem if you know what your doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhodesa Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 It can be just a portion of the site buy putting it in a subdir...like http://yourhost.com/content/, but I don't see why you wouldn't just give full control. I agree that most Joomla sites are easy to spot, since most people use free templates that all revolve around a stock look. But, without too much effort, Joomla lets you have a majority of the control (or with some more effort, all the control) when it comes to how the site looks. For instance, here is a work in progress of mine that has a Joomla backbone: http://bullmccabesboston.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webmaster1 Posted November 14, 2008 Author Share Posted November 14, 2008 It can be just a portion of the site buy putting it in a subdir...like http://yourhost.com/content/, but I don't see why you wouldn't just give full control. I agree that most Joomla sites are easy to spot, since most people use free templates that all revolve around a stock look. But, without too much effort, Joomla lets you have a majority of the control (or with some more effort, all the control) when it comes to how the site looks. For instance, here is a work in progress of mine that has a Joomla backbone: http://bullmccabesboston.com/ Nice, I like the flag logo (I'm Irish and living in Ireland btw) and the black gloss is very web2.0ish! I'm going to invest some time in Joomla then. I'm sure it will be quicker than building a cms and product gallery from scratch in PHP. I've found a few relevant tempates here: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=2053 I don't want to give it full control because I've already built quite a bit of the site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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