Advice on creating CMS webpages

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Hi Folks
I have been looking through the minefield of CMS offerings and wondered if any forum members can provide some help getting started.
I am fairly experienced with CSS/HTML and have a working knowledge of PHP.
I run a website for our rugby club which has 14 teams from under 6 to 17 plus open age teams.
Currently each team coach and/or manager sends e-mails with info which I load onto the website. I would now like to take things a step further and develop a simple "News" webpage for each team and allow the coach/manager to enter/delete their own content.
I am quite prepared to learn how to create the pages but the emphasis is on an easy solution. I do not need a full blown CMS system.
Anyone out there with some experience who can suggest a product or point me in the right direction would be appreciated.
Dave Butler
Yorkshire
England

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I suggest you take something ready made, including the template, because my own experience creating templates (skins) for cms generally develops into a nightmare. I am working on one right now and anything older than IE9 just messes up the pages totally. Not all the cms are terribly intuitive...and that goes for the Open Source such as Joomla too...but certainly you would be able to create the environment you describe for the coaches. I know some servers make it easy to install a cms...I believe that Fantastico automates the installation of cms ...see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastico_%28web_hosting%29
I use Nuke (aka DNN) http://www.dotnetnuke.com/ mainly because it is the one available through my own server. Very easy to use (if you don't attempt skinning) and no more expensive than Linux or Windows hosting.
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The easiest thing would be to create a news.pdf that they can create and FTP to the server. You can also check out CushyCMS or similar application to make your life easier.
CoffeeCup... Yeah, they are the best!

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