Suitable technologies to use for training/demo website build?

Hi all,

I created a post on the General Web Dev board but thought this may be a more appropriate place to pose the question (mods, please feel free to remove the post on https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/latest-technologies-to-use-for-training-demo-website-build/357022).

I’ve come up with a design for a fictional cinema to use as a training exercise and although I’ll be building out a barebones version of the site using HTML, CSS & JS to get the styling and UX nailed, I’m not sure where to start in terms of other technology to drive the website.

As much of the content (trailer videos, images etc) will be shared across multiple pages and I’ll be using page templates for the sub-pages I had thought about using Wordpress with Advanced Custom Fields-related plugins like I’ve done for another recent site I made. However, I wasn’t sure how up to date (in terms of training myself up) and also how robust and high performing it would be.

Attached are some screenshots of the homepage design I’m thinking of going for to give you an idea.

Thanks in advance.


Ok so I’ve started my basic HTML build which has given me the thought that WordPress with Advanced Custom Fields plugins would probably be the way to go.

I did think about using .Net templates but I presume these are considered pretty “old hat” now?

Let me know if anyone has any thoughts :slightly_smiling_face:

Sorry for follow-up post but giving some further thought with some other developer friends it seems like Wordpress coupled with Vue could be the best option. If anyone has any other thoughts though I’d really appreciate it!

Another option is to just use MongoDB and create my own CMS I guess but that’s a fair bit of work…Maybe there’s another CMS I could use though rather than Wordpress which frankly seems a little overkill…

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