In the Forums: How to Set up Static Sites?

In the forums this morning, Janine (user “tidy”) posed a question about how to best set up sites in EE that are made up of mostly static pages.

I am still quite new to ExpressionEngine. While managing structured content (usually the tricky part) is a breeze, I struggle with how best to approach sites with many standard/static/information type pages along with a few more structured sections.

For example, say a site has a home page, an about section with a few pages, a services section with a few standard pages (not structured) and then news and events sections which are structured.

Janine goes on to list out a few approaches, but is seeking the advice of “a few seasoned developers.”

My first approach is always the simplest one (easy to build on simple, difficult to undo complex), so I’d start with her first option:

1) having one pages/general weblog for all the static/information type pages, with categories indicating the section the pages belong to.

I’d also give the Structure module a shot and see where that took me. I’ve not used it on a production project before, but it seems like an option Janine should consider.

Do you have some suggestions for Janine? Visit the forum thread and give your advice.