Can someone Explain to me how people do this?

[stangn99]

Hello everyone,

I may have put this in the wrong section...if so, please move.

 

Here is what I want to try to do. I would like to put together a tutorials website. I'm not sure what exactly I want to do it for..but I want to keep myself busy with something.

 

I've tried playing around with CMS like Joomla, Typo3, phpWebsite, etc. 

 

The problem is, I'm not sure if I am even in the right direction.

 

An example of the layout I am looking for is over at  www.pslover.com/. I want that example same layout. A menu on the left side that may read "auto repair, motorcycle replair, etc"...once clicked, a list of "guides" will load on the right side of the menu with small thumbnails for each guide.

 

I just need a little push in the right direction. Are the people at  www.pslover.com  using a CMS? if so, which one? I need it to be exactly like that 

 

Thanks for any help at all.

[Daniel0]

Well, if you'd like to know whether they use a CMS or coded their own system, then you'd probably be better off with asking them instead of us. We can't really help you with creating a layout that looks like theirs for two reasons:

1. If you want it to look exactly like theirs, then you'd steal their stuff and I don't think many people here would help you to do that.

2. If you want it to look like theirs in terms of their position of elements, then we probably can't help you as you would be the only one who would know exactly how you wanted it. We could give suggestions after you've made your first attempts on how to improve it though.

 

For the programming of the backend. You would need to find out what features you want. Then you should start planning how you would implement them. For a tutorial site you would of course need a table that holds the tutorials, you would probably also need some sort of table containing the different categories and perhaps some users too.

[stangn99]

Thanks for the info.

 

I didnt' mean I wanted the content to be the same. I meant the layout.

So I guess I should start out by writing down what I exactly need to have, where I want it to positioned and go from there.

 

I will try to contact the site owner and ask if they used a CMS.

 

I'm basically looking for something really simple. Ill do a little more research also on easy to use (lite) CMS that will do what I need.

 

Thanks.