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Posted by John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points

Building a large scale site, need a CMS.

I am building a large scale website for the local CERT foundation (Community Emergency Response Team). 3/4th of the website is public facing information to anyone with a browser. I would use WordPress as its simple and easy to use for just that. User-end sees content and that's it, admin-end changes content. But I need a third level for members, they have a specific area of the site that needs to be logged in to and it gives them access to special pages/info/forums etc, but they don't have access to the administrative side or changing content on the front end.

below is the current page/content structure to give you an idea.

Home
    - Call To Action : ???
    - recent news post
    - nearest upcoming event
    - donors
    - social media


About
    - who, what, where, why
    - specialty teams
        - Search and Rescue
        - Incident Management Team
        - Web Emergency Operations
    - training opportunities (benefits of  joining)
        - Call To Action : Join Us


Contact Us
    - why join?
    - addresses/locations
    - Call To Action : contact form


Meetings & Events
    - calendar : embedded monthly overview
    - locations/events (nearest upcoming event)


Donate
    - mission statement
    - what donations are used for
    - contact address
    - Call to Action : Paypal donation portal
    - foundation W-9 form : download


Members Area
    - links (NBEOC, CCEOC, FEMA, preparetexas, strac, ETC.)
    - member profile (contact info, tracking hours/meeting attendance, tracking training, rank/title ... eg Treasurer, PR etc. ) ???
    - bbs/forum, messages/notifications ???
    - events (training/meetings) ???

1 Answer

Wayne Priestley
Wayne Priestley
19,579 Points
Wayne Priestley
Wayne Priestley
19,579 Points

Hi John,

I like the look of Pagelime for cms.
Here is a list with a short description of free CMS.
Here is an app that might be of interest to you Locked Area its from free to £30 and could be what you need to supplement a cms.

Hope this helps.