does anyone know enough PHP and other similar web coding to make a back-end for a website? or perhaps is there a pre-made generic one we could use? what we're needing is pretty basic. we have a site designed, but the news section needs the ability for multiple of us to log in, edit what's written and for that to show up on the front page. I don't think we need anything specific or fancy or anything of the sort and the guy who made the rest of the site so far learns about as fast as most jets fly, so he can pick up how to do stuff however we need it done after it's already in place, but he hasn't figured out how to get the back end into the site in the first place.

what I need, really, is either someone who knows of a tutorial for this sort of thing, someone who can give me a generic code for a basic back-end or something to that effect. I know nothing about any of this, I just know it's something we need on the website (which, btw, is http://www.gauntletofomerta.com ) and it's something that the guy building the site hasn't gotten around to yet. anything to make it easier and faster on him is essentially what I'm looking for.

help in any form is appreciated, even if it's just pointing me to a site with a how-to that's pretty good.

I'd recommend Wordpress for something like that. It's designed to be blogging software, but it'll do this job pretty easily. You can download the latest version from wordpress.org (wordpress.com is hosted for you; unless it's the other way around. I hear good things about the 2.7 beta.

hmm...interesting. we'll definitely look into this.

Wordpress will archive everything so people can read your old news. If you don't want it to... well, it can do that but it'd be almost ludicrous overkill to ask it to. It would be like buying an XBox to watch DVDs on. I'm not aware of a simple one-page editing thing, although that would be relatively trivial to write from scratch as long as you trust your admins.

well, so far I really like how wordpress looks. for a news page, archives are fine. in a gaming guild having multiple admins at various levels of power will also be nice to have. having comments on the front page as well as the ability for members to log in to even view certain information is also something useful.

I think this'll work fairly well assuming he can figure out how to set everything up, but in the end it'll be up to him to decide if it's something useful. he knows what we need and what we can use.

If things don't work out with Wordpress, I can always write some basic generic page for you.

If things don't work out with Wordpress, I can always write some basic generic page for you.awesome! that'd be a great help if wordpress doesn't work :)

you can also try another cms like joomla or whatever but i don't know how good those are

finally talked to him last night and he's apparently busy with college atm, so he'll look through wordpress as he gets the chance. I'll also mention joomla as an alternative.