SteveP

Are you serious? PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor 5.3.2 is the current release

Totally agree with Simon... in the whole scheme of things, the build of a new simple primary school website shouldn't cost too much. I think the school is being a bit naieve to think that one of todays primary forms of outside facing communication isn't worth some investment...

I've used Wordpress to setup the Fairfax School website using a custom theme that I created. In my opinion it's an excellent choice for a school CMS, as most others are too bloated and overkill for a school site - especially a primary school site. I'm sure you'll find it ideal for the job! Depending on whether you're into HTML/CSS/PHP you might want to look into theme development, best place to start is using a framework such as Hybrid or Thematic. Otherwise there are plentiful free themes out there!

Best thing to do is be totally honest and describe the car as fully and as comprehensive as you can, giving any history you know about it, describing body condition etc backed up with 10-15 high res images (you can always host these outside of eBay) Generally eBay is great, there are a few annoying messers but I've never really had issues when I've sold/bought cars on there. I think this thread is could also be named 'Why not to buy a french car'

Again, that's a bloody plugin giving that invalid code. As I say I'll get through it all eventually so no real need to scour around as I'm aware that some plugins don't validate to XHTML 1.0 Strict. The main problem plugins are the Calendar and Download Manager ones

Tom, the good thing is Wordpress's website has a vast array of plugins available for download on their website. Problem is though that these are third party and not necessarily kept as uptodate as Wordpress itself, so check the ratings out too! You can also search for and install plugins through the Wordpress back end using FTP. Have a browse: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ I've also fixed some of the errors koryo pointed out, it was caused by my slight customisation that was needed to the Wp-PageNavi plugin...Oops!

Very, in my opinion the easiest CMS to skin for. Best way I find is to design your layout in Photoshop (good practise to use 960 Grid for this), and transpose these dimensions/images/slices into HTML/CSS. You can then split up the html/css into the relevant header, page, post etc Wordpress files. I would also recommend developing from a base Wordpress framework theme, such as Hybrid or Thematic. Totally agree... unfortunately there are some plugins that I've used to try and save time which turn out to produce invalid code. Downloads manager for one of them (by the way, don't bother using this! I wish I hadn't...). Out of interest what page was that on? Before I utilised a couple of different plugins the original template is valid XHTML 1.0 Strict. EDIT: Looks like the front page, I'll get this sorted methinks! Bear in mind that it is still very much W.I.P. but seeing as it was such an improvement over our old E107 site it went live

@stevenpainter

I mean I suppose it'll do the job... but my problem with it was the code it produced and it is bettered by many other Open Source CMS's with better support, Wordpress, Joomla etc

Most definitely Wordpress... by far the nicest CMS system I've used, huge community backing, great SEO (probably not too big a deal for a non profit organisation), and easy to write custom themes for. I'm surprised at the suggestion of E107, having used it a couple of times (our old school site was built on it) I would personally avoid at all costs - it also produces some really nasty code! Also if you can't be arsed to write a custom theme the themes out there are poor at the best of times.

Thought I'd post here... I built the site that Jake posted up. Many thanks for the feedback... and also the Opera issue, it's all on a long 'to do' list! I'll also add that Wordpress is an excellent platform to build a school site on, a lot of other CMS systems are overkill and WP is generally much nicer to use, and work with! Now to sort the Moodle theme out!