CMS for AWS

CMS neccisary for datafeeds?

[fidibidabah]

Note, please move this if you deem fit, I had no idea where to put it :-/

I'm developing a site in a specific niche. Amazon sells less then 100 of these types of widgets (that's including all "colors" "shapes" "sizes"). I was thinking about using PostNuke or Xoops as a Content Management System, but now I'm not 100% sure why.

Would it bring me an additional hassel to get two different pieces of software I'm not familiar with (cms/aws) to work, work together, and work correctly? I will probably be using other merchants besides amazon also.

I still just can't find a reason to use CMS, although I know many amazon 'shops' use them. What advantages would it bring me, if any? Thanks.

Edit: No, It's not ink :P

[donovanh]

If it's less than 100 products, how about building the site as static pages (or with some basic database involvement to make templating easier)?

It might be overkill to include AWS, and if you make the pgaes yourself they'd be less likely to fall foul of the duplicate page filters...

HTH,

Don

[fidibidabah]

Ah, no, AWS is a must.

Amazon is CONSTANTLY changing the prices of these particular products up and down, and also changing the manufacturer, as well as the prodcut numbers, it would never work statically :( although some mod_rewrite might make it appear that way :D

[rfung]

I'd say use AWS.

I just grabbed 21,000 items from a particular product line from amazon. Definitely AWS to manage that.

[instinct]

I have some experience with PostNuke cms and phpNuke cms which are 2 of the more popular ones. In my opinion it would be overkill for what you want to do.

I'm doing something similar myself right now with only medium-level php knowledge, mysql and using AWS. I would custom program something if you can. I'm not finding it too hard.

On the other hand, aren't there turnkey "cms-like" Amazon store front-end packages available out there? I seem to think I saw something like this on their site. Maybe check that out.

Regards