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Posted by Nuno Nunes
Nuno Nunes
8,849 Points

Personal project - news website

Dear all,

I'm doing the tracks Web Design and Front End Web Development. Next, I'm planning to start the Full Stack Javascript track. My first goal is to be able to make a news website, but I feel I miss something.

In this website I'll need to add posts frequently, so editing the html every time I need to add a post doesn't sound efficient.

What kind of technologies / programming languages are used in this kind of websites in order to make the admin life easier when it comes to add posts?? Maybe a platform where I could add the text, select a image or so, select a category and in a click of a button the post is added to the website correctly.

I may need also to have a comment area for users.

Any help will be much appreciated :)

Thank you!

5 Answers

Andreas Frost Nordstrøm-Hansen
Andreas Frost Nordstrøm-Hansen
2,443 Points
Andreas Frost Nordstrøm-Hansen
Andreas Frost Nordstrøm-Hansen
2,443 Points

Wordpress is a very good option. It has easy navigation and makes admin life easier.

While also maintaining the possibility to custom code.

Nuno Nunes
Nuno Nunes
8,849 Points
Nuno Nunes
Nuno Nunes
8,849 Points

Thank you!

I saw a couple of tracks on Wordpress here. I'll watch them later for sure.

If I wanted to suffer more :) and do everything from scratch, what must I learn to be capable of doing it?

Andreas Frost Nordstrøm-Hansen
Andreas Frost Nordstrøm-Hansen
2,443 Points

I think you can bould strong websites with python or Ruby on rails.

So you could bite into that for sure :)

Ethan M
Ethan M
10,637 Points
Ethan M
Ethan M
10,637 Points

If you are really looking into the news game. I would highly advise creating a backend system processing all this data. Ruby on Rails is a good one for this. You can quickly add posts & would only have to style on template file then the database does the rest!

Right now I have been working with Java. Lots of languages you can use. I would suggest something like Python or RoR. Not too sure about asp.net but you could use that as well.

I use Rails for my personal blogging application. But I am starting to move to C# and Java.

Ethan M
Ethan M
10,637 Points

Posting images, commenting system, etc. Is all doable in Ruby on Rails and pretty much everything else haha. Just please don't style each article yourself haha. It's work that can be easily done.

Nuno Nunes
Nuno Nunes
8,849 Points
Nuno Nunes
Nuno Nunes
8,849 Points

Two votes for RoR :) Thank you both for your suggestions!

@ethanmoffat6, why do you want to move from RoR to C# and Java?

Ethan M
Ethan M
10,637 Points

Well, Java & C# are certainly becoming industry standards. More jobs are moving to some kind of Java framework. Although ASP.Net is kind of dying down it's still a good framework for web apps. But Java has a lot more web frameworks that I can see potential in.

But if you are a beginner in website application development. Rails would be perfect for you. It comes with some very useful gems. Here is a treehouse link regarding top 10 gems http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/10-must-have-ruby-gems

I personally use most of these when creating my web apps.

Ethan M
Ethan M
10,637 Points
Ethan M
Ethan M
10,637 Points

Also, if you get familiar with Ruby. C# would be a breeze.