Hi,

 

My client is currently using weebly and I would like to transfer the site to wordpress. However, they say they find the backend to confusing on wordpress. They will be reviewing next year about being able to put costs towards the website but wish to only have a free account for now.

 

The website content will include a blog style record of the project, a portal for feedback/emails, and maybe in the future to act as a way of promoting the project to new audiences and making bookings for workshop places.

 

Is there any advice on simplifying the backend process for clients? Am I right in thinking that weebly will be too limiting from a design point of view?

 

Many Thanks

Hannah

WordPress' admin dashboard is about the best trade off you can find between power and simplicity but you're correct in that it's not perfect,

Thankfully, as with everything WordPress, it's pretty easy to customise the back end.

With a few lines of code in the themes functions file you lock down certain areas and complete hide others from the clients making it as easy or as powerful as you need to.

if there a user freindly cms that is well documented and supported, wordpress is it imo.

I have to agree, Wordpress is pretty much the best in terms of simplicity for the end user, and, as mike pointed out, you can enable/disable pretty much anything.

Also you have things like http://easywpguide.com/ that are no end of help for non-tech clients.

Thank you this is what I thought! As a newbie, I wanted to make sure I had my facts right before responding to my clients comments on the wordpress backend.

i can give you access to my own cms - its very easy to use and well documented - currently i am working on video support so it will be even easier to follow

my cms is web based and there is no installation, i have some templates as well which you can edit without ingeretion into css and also you have access into css

Personally, I find Wordpress' backend the best.

 

Although I also use Adobe Business Catalyst on occasions (this isn't open source) and all those clients using it find it to be the best for them.