MirelesI
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4 years ago CMS is needed since casual users will be taking care of the site, not developers.
WordPress Vs Joomla because of the blog aspect, and the social network we are working towards to build for Phase 2. It was between WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. This article shows WordPress will be better overall for our site, past the social networking aspect too.
Considering developers may not be routinely doing maintenance on the site, Drupal is not sustainable for a CMS, since the Drupal interface is incomprehensible for most casual users.
WordPress has a BuddyPress plugin, that allows the features we are looking towards in phase 2 of the project for social networking. This includes:
- As a researcher I would like to post questions about my project design for community input.
- As a member I want to be able to easily search the DBSN directory and find my people.
WordPress integrates well with 3 hosting domains, SiteGround, DreamHost, BlueHost.
For scaling and security reasons, I believe DreamHost is the best domain host to for us.
It doesn't matter how big this site gets, DreamHost will always be able to meet the demands.
In order to Transfer Domain Host to Dreamhost this will help.
We can start with WordPress Basic Starter, and if we need to increase it to unlimited or DreamPress pretty easy to do. This is about $5 monthly for the start, but can increase to $17 or $20 monthly if DreamPress is needed.
Good theme plugins may run up to $200 dollars, and once we get wire frames will have to decide collectively which fit our needs well.
Research (pros/cons)