December 27, 200817 yr At the risk of sounding dense, I have never used a CMS apart from a bit of Macromedia Contribute I was wondering do you have to build a site in a CMS, like Joomla or Wordpress, or can you create the site, and then upload the necessary files and just use it to edit?
December 27, 200817 yr Author You can download templates if that's what you mean. No, I meant make my own site, and then a client can edit or update sections of it using a cms
December 28, 200817 yr At the risk of sounding dense, I have never used a CMS apart from a bit of Macromedia Contribute I was wondering do you have to build a site in a CMS, like Joomla or Wordpress, or can you create the site, and then upload the necessary files and just use it to edit? haven't use it too, but for CMS i use wp, it's 100% free supported by many people in any plugins that i love.
December 28, 200817 yr At the risk of sounding dense, I have never used a CMS apart from a bit of Macromedia Contribute I was wondering do you have to build a site in a CMS, like Joomla or Wordpress, or can you create the site, and then upload the necessary files and just use it to edit? Is it like Macromedia Contribute? Yes, in the sense that a CMS generally makes it easy for multiple users to add content to a website. Do you still have to build the site in a CMS? I suppose so yes (the point in using one is to avoid having to develop all that functionality from scratch)...but it's your choice as to how far you want to make modifications to the CMS. Usually customizing the theme is enough to get you somewhere. (ie: working with CSS and images/layout) Do you use a CMS just to edit the code online? Wordpress + Joomla offer a lot more than just an online code editor. It has a whole community of users supporting extensions, plugins, and themes. Does this help?
December 28, 200817 yr Author Is it like Macromedia Contribute? Yes, in the sense that a CMS generally makes it easy for multiple users to add content to a website. Do you still have to build the site in a CMS? I suppose so yes (the point in using one is to avoid having to develop all that functionality from scratch)...but it's your choice as to how far you want to make modifications to the CMS. Usually customizing the theme is enough to get you somewhere. (ie: working with CSS and images/layout) Do you use a CMS just to edit the code online? Wordpress + Joomla offer a lot more than just an online code editor. It has a whole community of users supporting extensions, plugins, and themes. Does this help? What I was thinking of is if the client has a news page for instance, and has to add content to that
December 28, 200817 yr In WordPress you can have users with various permissions - admin, editor, contributor...For example, an Editor can login and edit/manage/publish news articles. (They are called posts in WordPress) So yes it can handle the task of posting news basically. It is termed a "blog CMS", but blog/news...same thing.
December 28, 200817 yr Author In WordPress you can have users with various permissions - admin, editor, contributor...For example, an Editor can login and edit/manage/publish news articles. (They are called posts in WordPress) So yes it can handle the task of posting news basically. It is termed a "blog CMS", but blog/news...same thing. How would I implement this with an existing website?
December 30, 200817 yr the system in a CMS is that u need to upload a large number of php / asp files.... then create a design template that suits your requirements... integrate the template into the CMS system.... so that the php files use the template. and then u can add pages... it is a bit complicated and not as easy as Contribute...... it is just not that easy as to upload a few files.... dreamweaver is comparatively very easy and best for small sites.... CMS is best for bigger sites...
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