Does anyone know of a Tessitura organization which has done a website redesign without contracting an outside firm, perhaps using an open source CMS?
This may seem ambitious, but with the use of TNEW for ecommerce, our website is not very complex.
If you or someone you know has done this – please reach out. I’d love to hear how it went and what you would recommend.
Thanks,
Nick
Sorry I didn't see this question earlier. At Hartford Stage we built our own web site using Wordpress. We update the UI/design iteratively and maintain the site ourselves. As long as you have someone on staff literate in HTML and CSS it's not overly complicated. We built a custom theme with our own page templates and utilize a number of different plugins. We initially used a basic Wordpress template for our TNEW template. We had to change with the advent of TNEW v7 due to conflicts between our javascript libraries and TNEW v7 javascript libraries. We now use a static HTML template for TNEW v7 pages.
Wordpress is a great CMS; it's ubiquitous so there are vast resources for reference, tutorials and discussion, there are thousands of free or premium plugins, and Wordpress itself, of course, is free.