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My uncle wanted me to redo his site http://geodatavision.com
He doesn't want to do anything special he wants to reorganize everything and change the overall look of the site with some new CSS. I am fairly new to Drupal but I would like to use it for this project. I was hoping to get some ideas of selling points to get him to move away from static pages.
The ones I have right now are he plans on adding features that will require a database of customer accounts and the ease of adding content.
Or should not use Drupal?
Thanks in advance
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I would certainly use Drupal
I would certainly use Drupal for this. Your two points are very valid. See here also:
http://tips.webdesign10.com/drupal/about-drupal-311.html
http://drupal.org/getting-started/before/overview
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Yes drupal seems ideal for what you want to do. One word of advice-- don't create a separate 'customers' database. If you want customers to be able to login, you'll want to make them users and then use either the core profile (very basic) or contributed content_profile (advanced) modules for adding fields to your customer users. If customers will have more than one user per customer you may wish to look at the http://drupal.org/project/og module in order to create groups for each customer.
If you don't need/want customers to login, you can simply create a 'customer' content type and use the http://drupal.org/project/cck module to add fields for the data you wish to track per customer. In either case you'll want to use the http://drupal.org/project/views module to create various listings of your content and customers.
As for selling points-- the big one is, of course, once the site is setup in drupal your uncle will be able to edit the content of any pages any time he wants simply by clicking 'edit'. He won't have to rely on you or hire someone who knows html to modify content. If you use a wysiwyg editor (my current favorite is the http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor module) it can be as easy as editing a word processing document (no html required).
Thanks guys.
Thanks guys.