A friend has asked me to make a website for him, for a games arcade he runs. It’s an extremely simple website so no big deal.
The thing is I’m not quite sure how to approach it, I haven’t worked on sites in a while. It would probably be easiest for me to create the site entirely myself, a few pages, css and probably a bit of javascript. But then I thought what if he wants to change things himself in the future, so I should maybe use a cms like wordpress or drupal. The last cms I used was nopcommerce about 2 years ago so I’m not really up to speed with them and themes etc.
Back in uni we were making websites with xml, which sounds ideal as I could create pages that would remain unchanged then use xml for arcade machines and news updates which he could edit himself. But that was a few years ago, is that how things are done nowadays?
Apologies for sounding so stupid but I’d like to get into web design again and I just want the opinion of someone with a bit of experience as to how they would go forward with this so I can do things properly.
Thanks!
I found WordPress ok for smaller sites.
Things evolve quickly around the web and you would probably benefit from the large collection of available templates.