Designing a website for a friend

[azureye]

Here's the deal:

I'm an amateur web designer, and I've taught myself lots of random stuff over the years — mostly, I can do HTML and CSS, though I've been experimenting with PHP as of late.

The director of a local youth theater really wants a website he can easily update with news like auditions, theater camps, whatever, but the theater can't afford to pay someone to set up a site or anything.

I told him I'd be willing to set one up, and now I'm trying to decide the best way to go about this. SETTING up the site isn't a problem, but it needs to be made in a way where everything can easily be edited by the theater director (and he's not very good with computers).

I had considered just setting up a Wordpress blog, since that's super-easy to update, but I'd have to pay extra if I wanted to do any custom CSS or fun stuff.

I'd also looked into CutePHP, which has a CuteNews item, but I've never known anyone who's used it. Has anyone here used it? Would a non-computer-literate person be able to use it to update a site?

Also, does anyone else have any other ideas I'm not thinking of?

Thanks!

[Toon]

Have a read through this....

edit in place - CMS

Cushy CMS could be what you're looking for, it's the easiest way to amend content, but not really a CMS as you can't add pages etc.

[azureye]

just had a look at Cushy CMS, and it indeed looks just about perfect.

Thank you very much!

[james]

Just looked at that too, watched the video introduction... I think even I might be able to set that up!

[Jimb0]

I've heard Drupal is good but I don't know if it's OPen Source or licensed

[tommylogic]

Originally Posted by Jimb0

I've heard Drupal is good but I don't know if it's OPen Source or licensed

Very extensive set up and not for the amateur to maintain, I would think. Isn't WordPress about easy enough for this?

[LeadMagnet]

I've gotta get around to learning some of these CMSs.

[tommylogic]

With your knack for programming and database knowledge, you'll take right to it. And I'll be waiting for you when you do..