Is PW for me?

[MLCB]

Hello to everyone in here

I was browsing around on your forums and can see that the best way to get the answers to my questions seems to be just making a post and asking!

I am looking into creating a villa rental website and have fallen in love with http://www.villasofdistinction.com/ which I found out have been created using PW!

I have basic knowledge of HTML but no real knowledge in programming in more details and more complicated, hence the reason why I wanted to ask if PW is something that I will be able to use?

I believe that when creating a website containing several villas in different areas the best way to do this and to allow customers to browse and search through the villas based on different criteria, PW seems to be the right place to go.

BUT would this be something I can do? Or does it require a lot of programming knowledge and I would be better off trying to use Wordpress, Joomla or such?

I look forward to hearing your opinions.

[Joss]

Well, to start with I suggest you go play with one of the tutorials. 

http://wiki.processwire.com/index.php/Basic_Website_Tutorial

This is a pretty thorough one which demonstrates some very basic use of php and so on - it walks you through it very simply, so you wont get lost.

The chances are, if you have some basic understanding of how this works together, then you will find you learn faster than you think.

The advantages are that even though you have to actually get your hands dirty rather than use plug-and-play addons, the resulting site is much leaner, faster, more efficient and far more maintainable - after all, you will know every nook and cranny of it!

So, play with that tutorial, maybe try the news one after which is also on the wiki site, and see how you get on.

Good luck!

[pwired]

Hi mlcb, welcome to processwire.

can see that the best way to get the answers to my questions seems to be just making a post and asking!

A lot of beginners questions, like you are asking now, have already been answered in the forum.

Just go through the forum channels to see if your questions are already answered there.

http://processwire.com/talk/topic/4173-grouped-forum-posts-links-articles-tutorials-code-snippets/

Is PW for me ?

What makes PW so different from other cms'es is that with PW you can directly use any html, css, php, etc, experience you already have. This is not the case with the other cms'es out there, where you have to learn

their rules first before you can use them. In other words, PW can be used by both designers and coders even with little html and css experience. With PW you can make your own templates and fill them with your own api calls. Which brings me to what you have to learn with PW and that is it's powerfull api, http://processwire.com/api/

I would be better off trying to use Wordpress, Joomla or such?

Feel free to work with wordpress, joomla, drupal, etc, so that you can compare them with PW and make your own

conclusions. That is what I have done and made me see the open potential that PW has compared to the others.

have fallen in love with http://www.villasofdistinction.com/ which I found out have been created using PW!

I wouldn't start with something so ambitious like that. Start with the tutorials first, learn the api

and then work your way up.