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nicholas maddren
12,793 PointsStumped on this project!
I have been asked to develop a website for a car dealer in the UK and I am a little stumped on what I can do? You see this company needs feeds to be sent to the advertisers they use such as www.autotrader.co.uk. I have not yet been told of how these feeds are delivered for example XML, CSV or SQL. I'm just wondering what people would recommend for example what CMS if any of the popular CMS's? Also the client has asked if they can have a system that grabs vehicle information when they are listing the vehicle onto the site. I know where to get this data source however I am unsure if that will change anything. I'm pretty sure I will need to develop something myself however any guidance would be great. Thanks :)
2 Answers
Sean Perryman
13,810 PointsIn my experience, feeds like that are transferred between sites with RSS or JSON, both easily doable in any off the shelf CMS you want to use.
What exactly is the client wanting? If they are just wanting something to list cars and perhaps have a detail view with some extra pictures and a description, there are plugins for WordPress that add a classifieds functionality to an already very stable platform. If you went with something like WordPress, the client should be able to update the site on their own with minimal instruction from you; some of the other open source content management systems do not afford this luxury.
All in all it depends on what features they want and what they want to pay for. I can see something like this being done fairly easily in Ruby on Rails, but it is going to cost more due to the increased time you are going to have to put in writing a bunch of code. Using an off the shelf CMS is going to save time and money, and give you a solid product that is maintainable and secure.
nicholas maddren
12,793 PointsTanks for the great advice! Ill most likely go with Wordpress as you described it is very stable, also yes they are listing cars and want to do it in the easiest possible way. I'll have a play about with Wordpress and see what I can come up with :)