Looking for any CMS that will work with a certain template

[amadeus]

Hi All

I wont to purchase this (http://www.templatemonster.com/website-templates/4806.html)template

But i don't know how to adjust it to a CMS. so i am looking for someone who can make a final prodact so the final site will look "exactly" like in the picture above ("exactly" in therms of desighning concept, in the text positions and pictures there will be changes of cource)

Can anyone tell me how i can do that? by my self or by paying?

Thanks a lot!!

[casperl]

Hi,

I had a look at it, if this is the same template (the Synagogue - http://images.templatemonster.com/screenshots/4800/4806-b.jpg)

I cannot really claim for CMS systems other than Drupal, but the short answer is no. A qualified 'no, but...'

The trick is to look for columns. Virtually all CMS templates are based upon columns whether by tables or CSS. A header area, a footer area and one, two or three columns inbetween. Sometimes the center column can be split up yet again into blocked areas.

In the above example there is also really a header, a footer and a center area with a left and right column (even though the left column looks like two columns, it is probably one with one item being split into two - probably by a table. Thus, it is in theory possible to achieve that type of layout in CMS, but probably never even close to the example in visual terms.

Purchasing this template though will help absolutely nothing if you want to apply it to a CMS. It will be of great help if you create a static website in Dreamweaver though.

If you balance the cost and effort of producing the eye-candy for a nice template in a CMS system it is not really worth the expense in either your time or in outsourcing to someone else. I am saying this, not because attractive looking websites are not important, but because one of the very first practical lessons you learn in running a CMS systems is that content really is king (almost) and the joy of user-interaction and participation comes a close second.

The best advice in a CMS system is to choose an existing template for that CMS, use it, run with it, and gradually make changes in small steps!

You will soon find, in practical terms, that you can serve the users of the website far better with add-on modules delivering tangible benefit to them than with eye candy, and that the eye-candy becomes largely irrelevant.

Google never made a cent out of great theming of their content. And their changes to things like adwords are small, in incremental steps. And it is totally irrelevant to the world at large, because Google is appreciated for the content.

Hope it helps

Casper

[siguie]

Pretty much any of the standard CMS systems "can" be used like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or Geeklog (Joomla is my favorite) BUT just making it look the same doesn't mean it will work the way you want it to. A CMS is used to make the site dynamic so you need to decide what parts will change, how they will change and how to make everything work together.

So my answer is "yes" technically you can make a CMS look like that template BUT realistically the answer for you will probably be "no". It's a lot of work and the template you specified would need to be adapted and completely rewriten by someone who understands the foibles of the chose CMS.

If you really want to use a CMS my advice would be to choose the CMS then look at the templates available.

[Digitalxero]

You can check out http://typo3.org

[dvessel]

Typo3? that's a joke right? hehe.. So complicated and so overkill. I wonder how much a Typo3 dev charges.

Drupal 'can' do that layout. I'm sure it's the same with joomla. The right developer is all that's needed. And forget about columns, it's only there when that's the way the theme's designed.

[change]

you can get cheap prices (and I am talking something in the range of $70-$150) if you use some freelancer marketplace. You can find some good links here, good luck

marketplace links (http://www.outsourcing-jobs-to-foreign-country.blogspot.com/)