Hi >> This might be a bit premature, but while the iron is hot and all that: >> >> 1) Is there any web designer capacity here? Imagine for a moment >> that we want 1-2 websites - who can style and theme these? > > Let's keep things simple...eye candy is not necessary, IMHO. Just need > to ensure the format and navigation structure of the website is usable > and easy to find. I think eye candy *is* necessary for the 5-10 pages that the typical customer stumbles on. Amazon and Yahoo spend quite a bit of time on making the front page look good. After the front few pages the rest is way less important though and personally I think the choice of wiki engine really isn't an issue... To my eye they all look roughly the same... >> 2) Website engine. Anyone here got any experience of web engines >> which can work as the "front of house" site? Michael has offered >> TikiWiki (but I'm not sure if that's necessarily the only option for >> the front pages). Other popular engines seem to be Joomla or >> wordpress? Anyone offer the resources to manage the setup of a new >> front site for vserver? > > Foswiki may be suitable. Since it can be a mix of both wiki and CMS > together. I *really* think that unless someone can pull through the entire migration to a new engine that this is an unnecessary change. The first few pages can either be done in the current wiki, or using a separate engine. I don't really mind if someone wants to migrate the existing wiki to some other engine, but I do think it's a *massive* undertaking and shouldn't be undertaken without a clear opinion that it adds some benefits. I would imagine 2-4 weeks full time work to complete it as a finger in the air estimate... I really don't want to put anyone off doing something positive, but do please keep in mind that a) The current site is *excellent* for "reference" material b) distinguish this from quickstart and "how do I...?" type documentation which is more user and functional orientated. Actually there is already quite a bit of this, but it's not quite brought together in a "handbook" yet c) the front of the website is normally "flashy" - this is frequently a separate site or engine for many websites (In fact most websites I see use one engine for forums, another for main content, another for documentation, etc - please don't feel that we need to re-engineer the bits that we already have (good documentation) when it's the bits that we *don't have* that we need to create from scratch) Ed W