You could definitely use C5 for this type of site. My suggestion would be to explore the show case =>http://www.concrete5.org/about/showcase/... and see what sites are like yours or maybe go through the themes in the marketplace and find one with a similar layout.

I love C5 it's really flexible, and easy to develop for.

I know it's just opinion but I hope that helps some.

I personally don't like working with Drupal at all, but honestly this is the kind of site that Drupal was made for. Drupal is terribly complicated to learn and is more restrictive in terms of how you can design your pages -- but at its heart it is a database system for little pieces of content that are displayed in a uniform fashion in various places on a site (which is exactly what that site you link to is). Concrete5 on the other hand is better suited for more "heterogenous" sites where the overall design of the page is the most important thing and you want the person editing the site to be able to have flexibility on each page to put different kinds of content on it. But due to the flexible nature of C5's editing, it can become burdensome when you have lots and lots of pieces of uniform content that get added/updated on a regular basis. It's the same reason that if you're building a site that is just a blog, you should absolutely use Wordpress and not C5, but if you're building an informational / marketing / portfolio / catalog site you should absolutely use C5 and not wordpress.

All that being said, if you do use concrete5 to build this site, you're going to want to base it around 2 principles:

1) Each piece of content is its own page that lives in a certain section of the site. These pages are not necessarily where a visitor to your site will view the content, but rather serves as the "database of content" that the people editing the site will use to add/edit/re-order/delete the content. In essence, where Drupal sees each piece of content as a "node" in a database, Concrete5 sees each piece of content as a "page", and the site *is* your database.

2) Make extensive use of the "Page List" block and build lots of "Custom Templates" for it to display those content pieces in the appropriate places. C5's Page List block is kinda-sorta like Drupal's CCK/Views -- in essence it "queries" the "database" to list content (but again, the "database" for C5 is really the site itself, with each page being a "record" in the database). Check out the "Page List Teasers" addon in the marketplace to help with this as well -- it will make the page list block display actual content from each page as opposed to just the title and description fields.

Best of luck!

-Jordan

I've done more than 40 websites, some of which have more than 300 pages of content. I would strongly recommend concrete5 because you give the power of managing the content directly to the owner of the site.

I used joomla went to drupal, and stopped at concrete5 and I've been using it for 3 years now, I REFUSE to work with other CMS. Either would be for ecommerce to magazine website etc.

I recommend you buy Remo's book, and it will guide you through concrete5. I've read it and I believe its one of the most simple and fast paced books I've read.

the book is on:https://www.packtpub.com/concrete5-beginners-guide/book...

Thanks for all the information Dwayne, Lynecode & Jordon. I will be learning Concrete5 now as it looks like this will be the most efficient way to go in learning and keeping a nice design style going within the website.

And also as a CMS tool that I can use with my clients as they always wanting to update sections of their own websites.

The Page List Teasers is exactly what I was looking for, so thank-you for pointing me in that direction. I read the reviews and I know it will work fine.

I think I will also try the drop-down menu add-on as well.

There will be some pages that will require constant updating, and with out going into a huge database set-up to make this happen,(maybe later though) I think it will far less work than how I am currently doing it. I am thinking this out in great detail.

Thanks again for your input!

Sincerely,
Todd