What's the best way to develop a website or use a free tool to manage/automate event listings (daily)?
Similar to the arcade on USA Today's site with various categories and new games daily, with a professional look and feel (logo to be designed). It needs to be dummy proof and mobile because I don't want to allocate too many resources to maintaining a site per se.
http://usatoday.cafe.com/
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Try DotNetNuke (www.dotnetnuke.com) or Joomla (www.joomla.org). If you have a server that you can load them on, then they are free website engines. I use DotNetNuke all the time for my websites.
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I would suggest a WordPress site with the Events Calendar Plug-in or something similar.
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You may want to look in to Expression Engine, a powerful but flexible content management system. It's commercial, but relatively inexpensive, but you can try the free (Core) version if your site is non-commercial.
If you want to build a site similar to the one you mentioned, I doubt that a free website builder will allow you to organize games into categories, easy mobile updates, etc. I believe you need a full-blown content management system, such as WordPress like Janet mentioned, or my favorite Expression Engine.
Whichever CMS you choose, the builder of the site would need at least competent skills in HTML/CSS, and probably JavaScript and maybe PHP.
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Well, Keisha, I'm pretty sure your pockets are not as deep as Gannett Corp.
I do not see "event" listings on the USA Today site, so I'm not sure if that is even what you mean.
If you "don't want to allocate too many resources to maintaining a site per se" what are your goals? A website needs constant maintenence. Who is going to add the games/events whatever?
I agree with some that you may be able to use Wordpress which is fairly easy to maintain. I personally would not want to try to build a site similar to the USA Today one in Wordpress - it's just not robust enough.
You could try a more capable CMS - my pick would be Drupal, but that is neither "simple" nor "idiot-proof" to maintain - you need to know what you're doing - a Formula 1 racing car is not "simple" nor "idiot-proof" either, but very high-performance.
