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Jeremy
07 Mar 2011, 09:27 AM
So I recently volunteered to assist a nonprofit in my area in updating their website, latrails.org. As you can see, it's a mess.

From our first meeting, I left with the understanding that a fairly static website would be adequate. The only interaction with users would be an embedded facebook gadget, a contact form, paypal donations links and Google maps I plan to create that show the trails people can hike in terrain view - all well within my skills and abilities.

I recently received an email from my client that he now wants a way to easily update the organization's financial supporters that appear on the site. At the very least, their logos would need to appear on a page dedicated to "supporters" or their logos would need to appear on the homepage.

The problem is, I'm not really qualified to create a basic CMS, and I don't want to build a website around an entire CMS in the background (like wordpress, drupal) because I think a grand CMS might be superfluous for their needs.

So I'm looking for ideas if any of you have them. I was thinking I might be able to make a javascript slideshow that feeds from a picasa or flickr account and my client could just log into the picasa/flickr account to add/remove logos. But the slideshow would have to be highly customized. I wouldn't want to use one of the standard /flickr (http://www.flickrslideshow.com/)/picasa(like these (http://www.mainevoad.org/album)) slideshows those websites give you to embed. The slideshow shouldn't link back to the image account or to the images themselves, but preferable to a page within the website.

Basically, I don't want it to look like a "flickr" or "picasa" slideshow.

Any tutorials out there that accomplish that? Or perhaps some premade gadgets?