I am building a simple website that displays a lot of geospatial data (which is routed through Geoserver). I was trying to use Drupal-6 to build the website component (non geospatial descriptions) but had plenty of issues dealing with openlayers and other modules as well as deploying it properly.
My goals are simple – to display geospatial data (with Google maps background) and a normal website with a big menu and different explanatory content.
Which web application framework is easiest (for a non web programmer) to achieve these two goals based on your experience
Best Answer
first of all i want to advice you to look at this thread which has Comparasion of Javascript Mapping Libraries. At least it will give some information about web mapping libraries.
i want to advice as everyone does, openlayers is so good library but it is a bit harder from others because of having good amount of functionality.if you think the way forward openlayers fits like a glove in that web mapping world. Beside this you can take lots of help when you dont solve any problem.
you still want something simple, i advice you Polymaps.. it is really so easy to develop a web mapping application.
i hope it helps you...