Best platform/solution for a lecture series website?
January 25, 2015 8:07 AM Subscribe
I'm looking for the best way to present information online about a lecture series.
Right now the website for this particular series consists of hand-coded static pages. There are roughly ten speakers each term, and each talk has a title and an abstract. What we have now is a page for each term listing the speakers/dates, each of which is linked to a page for that specific talk with an abstract.
Ideally I'd like the ability to input speaker, talk title, abstract, date for each talk and then have the term schedule page automatically generated (including highlighting the next upcoming talk), as well as the individual page for each talk. A bonus would be the ability to dynamically create a subscribable calendar which lists the talks.
I know wordpress fairly well but it doesn't seem to be a good fit, and more elaborate CMS packages (drupal, joomla) seem like overkill for this simple task. Searching on "web database frontends" gives me a lot of results that seem more suited for interactive sites, e.g. where data is being gathered from users. If there is something "off the shelf" that I could use for this purpose that would be fantastic. But I'm also quite willing to put the time in to learn some basic scripting so any pointers to good tutorials on how to do this in whatever language is recommended would also be welcome.
Right now the website for this particular series consists of hand-coded static pages. There are roughly ten speakers each term, and each talk has a title and an abstract. What we have now is a page for each term listing the speakers/dates, each of which is linked to a page for that specific talk with an abstract.
Ideally I'd like the ability to input speaker, talk title, abstract, date for each talk and then have the term schedule page automatically generated (including highlighting the next upcoming talk), as well as the individual page for each talk. A bonus would be the ability to dynamically create a subscribable calendar which lists the talks.
I know wordpress fairly well but it doesn't seem to be a good fit, and more elaborate CMS packages (drupal, joomla) seem like overkill for this simple task. Searching on "web database frontends" gives me a lot of results that seem more suited for interactive sites, e.g. where data is being gathered from users. If there is something "off the shelf" that I could use for this purpose that would be fantastic. But I'm also quite willing to put the time in to learn some basic scripting so any pointers to good tutorials on how to do this in whatever language is recommended would also be welcome.
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Otherwise, I'd probably look into a static generator (I like Sculpin) or Squarespace's events if you want easy and hosted.
posted by michaelh at 11:23 AM on January 25, 2015 [1 favorite]