Which tool(s) to use to design the website?

Question

We have a few tools at our disposal for making the website. Here is a short list, with some pros and cons

Wordpress.org

Pros:
- Quick & easy
- Lots of useful plugins
- Free
- No code to write
Cons:
- Potential limitations due to the Wordpress.org platform
- It's PHP

Bootstrap

Pros:
- Quick & Easy
- Good at creating HTML and CSS
- Can change source code as needed
Cons:
- None

Write all the code

Pros:
- Learning experience working with web development
Cons:
- Time consuming

Comments

Correction: With wordpress you can have 100% control of the code (if you host it on your own server, which we will, and not on the wordpress.org domain). The biggest con is that it is PHP.

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Another correction: Bootstrap *does not exclude* write all the code. If we use Bootstrap, we still have to create the HTML. Using bootstrap makes it easier to make pretty looking stuff as they have a whole bunch of CSS classes already defined. We will have complete control of code base no matter which option we choose.

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Edited to be more accurate

Answer 1

I'm voting for Bootstrap. It provides a bunch of predefined CSS stuff, and some nice JS features as well (for menus for example). It will also give a learning experience for someone who hasn't used it before (I have used it a bit before so I'll be around to ask about it).

Using Bootstrap, we can also have the choice later on to include it in a Java-driven backend. As the site will be purely static for now, there's no need to include the Java backend already, but it will not be too hard to include it later on.

Comments

Sounds great to me!