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theitman

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#83532 18-May-2011 11:35

Hi Folks

I am currently finishing my 3rd year project and have built a website for my client. I now need a CMS with the website so that he can change the content once I have finished and left him with the website. Mainly content and images. What would be the best way to go about this??

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#470435 18-May-2011 11:37

Did you build a web site first, then look for the CMS? Or was just the design and now you need a CMS/templates to put it up?

theitman

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#470437 18-May-2011 11:42

Yes i built the website first. I was going to build the website in wordpress but felt it gave me more freedom to build it outside of wordpress then possibly move the website into wordpress etc

jbard

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#470438 18-May-2011 11:50

So how did you build the website, did you write the html/php yourself or use some sort of WYSIWYG editor?

theitman

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#470440 18-May-2011 11:54

I wrote the html myself. Its just html at the moment because its just the prototype, am yet to do the php

jbard

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#470441 18-May-2011 11:56

Do you have a link to the site so i can take a look?

When building a site you really needed to choose a CMS at the start, you can intergrate this site with a CMS now without a lot of work.

If you say its only for text/images i would just build a custom CMS for it.

Set up a database and let the user update images/text.

Should take only a couple of hours for a 10-20 page site.

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#470442 18-May-2011 11:58

Or you can look at using a CMS, but these don;t work so well with custom sites, and its not going to be easy to intergrate it now that the site is already built.

Some CMS to look at are:
-joomla
-drupal

theitman

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#470444 18-May-2011 12:02

Sure, its [removed]

That is the first prototype, second one is about to go up. There are only 4 pages now instead of the 5.

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#470447 18-May-2011 12:08

Yes for a site like this i highly recommend building a custom CMS, its really not that hard and you will get some good experience out of it.

I assume you are using shared hosting? so setting up a database will be really easy.

A really simple way of doing it is assign each paragraph of text its own database field.
Then you have a image uploader and you store the url of each image in the database as well.

If you have any technical questions on how to do this i'm happy to help.

theitman

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#470451 18-May-2011 12:20

Yes we are doing shared hosting. Ok thanks heaps. Will send you a PM if that is ok if i need any help/advice.

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#470453 18-May-2011 12:21

theitman: Yes we are doing shared hosting. Ok thanks heaps. Will send you a PM if that is ok if i need any help/advice.

Thanks

Yes thats no problem

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#470456 18-May-2011 12:26

I have xampp installed on my pc so can i use phpmyadmin to create the database with tables etc?

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#470457 18-May-2011 12:27

While it's great if you are a developer, if you are doing design, why not just go for joomla, drupal and be done with it?

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#470458 18-May-2011 12:30

The design is pretty much all done. Just need a cms so client can change things when im finished

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#470461 18-May-2011 12:32

And that's why I wonder... If you want speed to market you use one of the ready, off the shelf CMS available. Why develop your own? While fun, it's something that you have to consider - are you going to maintain it? Are you skilled in development?

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#470462 18-May-2011 12:34

How difficult would it be to move my website into a cms like joomla or drupal? I have just under 2 weeks to have it done.

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