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Oct 02.2014

Hello. I’m kind of new in the web dev world.
I know basic html and css, and now I’m wrapping my head around javascript.

I want to create an events website. A website that would show all events happening in a city, by date and location. What skills do I need to make this kind of site? Are there any good templates that I could inspire from and jump right into it? And should I use wordpress as a content management system or what is an easy way for me to update the site with new events?

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@jedaisoulOct 02.2014 — Firstly, JavaScript is (or should be) irrelevant to the functionality you want. A web page should function correctly with or without JS. What you need is PHP, either directly or through a CMS, the choice is yours. CMSs create code heavy inferior sites, but are easier (at first) to get a working sites written. However, they are harder to amend to suit specific requirements, because of the unintelligible code they spew out, and the fact that, as you did not actually write the code, you are not familiar with why it was written the way it was!!!

So far as updating the sites with new events, a good CMS should make this easy, but I don't use them so I can't recommend any. To facilitate update of the events by myself on a PHP site, I would use include files formatted in HTML. However, if the events need to be updated by others, I'd use ASCII text files and write a simple text-to-HTML facility used at run-time to sanitize the files and parse the text into headings and paragraphs. Either way, that would allow the events info to be updated without directly editing the web page code.
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@abidasaalimOct 10.2014 — You need php or big CMS skills to developed an event based website.
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@aframalikOct 13.2014 — If you are good in php or can make custom CMS then go with event based website.
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@aubenefitOct 13.2014 — you can use joomla and build site. Then you can use many extensions event or other extension. Very simple.
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