At my current job most of the sites I work on require only fairly standard HTML and CSS with a little JavaScript here and there. But we are about to hopefully get a client where more back-end programming is required. I have some PHP knowledge and am willing to keep learning but the learning curve required for this project may be a little beyond what anyone here wants to wait or pay for me to tackle. And it may not be much but what is needed is a way for users to be able to register and login, to be able to check and see what classes they have taken (this is for a site offering a few online and in-person educational classes), to have automatic e-mail reminders sent out to remind when a user’s certification is about to expire, and to be able to register for new classes after initial registration and without having to register again (okay, I might be getting slightly redundant here).
I am fine with all the HTML/CSS/JavaScript development and would like to be able to simply “plug in” the functionality. We are open to paying for it too. I suppose somebody might suggest something like Joomla but the couple times I tried using Joomla before it drove me up the wall.