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[Flanders]

Hi there

I have a potential client who's looking to spruce up his website...and he'd also like to be able to update the site himself. Any suggestions on an easy-to-use tool that we might implement for him? The site itself is relatively simple; he would mostly be adding press releases, current projects, and possibly a blog (at the moment he uses one powered by blogger, but he may or may not want to stay with that).

Price isn't too much of a factor, although we'd like to stick with something reasonable.

If you know of anything, please let me know. This is a project I'd love to have and a service I think we really need to look into offering.

Thanks so much!

[Jacorre]

Take a look at WordPress. It's a blogging system that can act as a whole content management system. You can also customize it with your own theme. Best of all, it's free!

[Flanders]

Jacorre, on Aug 27 2007, 04:28 PM, said:

Take a look at WordPress. It's a blogging system that can act as a whole content management system. You can also customize it with your own theme. Best of all, it's free!

This looks pretty nifty from my first impression (although it's only free if we want to use one of their templates, from what I'm seeing...not that it'd be a problem to buy a subscription), but I notice it doesn't allow HTML...the websites we design are usually pretty heavy in the graphic area and we generally use HTML to code them (I know it can be done with CSS, but for the sake of not inducing seizures on the other designers, we generally just use CSS for minor things like text formatting...seems like they're not teaching much other than very simple embedded stylesheets at schools these days)...is there another system out there that might permit us to use HTML?

[Jacorre]

WordPress uses CSS, HTML, PHP, etc. You do not have to subscribe, it's free. You can either use one of the many templates they have in their database or you can create your own. There's also documentation on how to create your own, which can be found on the WordPress site as well as searching for tutorials using Google.

[Vandalised]

I don't know about anyone else but personally, the continuing fad of wordpress sites (mainly blogs) is starting to tire on me. I'm in no way a fan of them lol, I think it's just the fact that it wouldn't feel as though you've created a website, feels like cheating to me But maybe that’s just me who knows

Anyway if you have cpanel, and if you have fantastico go on there to see a list of some tools that might interest you.

[rc69]

http://expressionengine.com/

^ Never used it, never looked at it's prices, and contrary to whats advertised, it totally doesn't work in safari on mac (that or my boss's computer sucks).

I'd offer to help (for a price), but between my current employer and school, side-jobs are just out of the question...

Edit: Just realized, you want control of the template. Well, with this, i doubt you can control the back-end design (doubt that matters), but for the front end, you use your own templates.

Edited by rc69, 06 September 2007 - 09:29 PM.

[Jacorre]

Vandalised, on Sep 5 2007, 11:38 AM, said:

I don't know about anyone else but personally, the continuing fad of wordpress sites (mainly blogs) is starting to tire on me. I'm in no way a fan of them lol, I think it's just the fact that it wouldn't feel as though you've created a website, feels like cheating to me But maybe that’s just me who knows

Anyway if you have cpanel, and if you have fantastico go on there to see a list of some tools that might interest you.

Check out NDesign Studio and WedDesignerWall. Those sites are powered by WordPress, but the look and feel to them were all done by a talented designer not WordPress!

[Bouzy210]

Just heavily comment your code so he knows where to put stuff and make a custom blog system.