I almost hate to add to this as everyone has their own personal choices, much like "what kind of a car should I buy".
However, over the past five years I found expression engine and movable type the easiest and most configurable for both the developer and end user. Wordpress as well actually to a lesser degree. Like all, they have an admin panel where the client adds content to fields and formatting such as paragraphs and breaks is automated much like any text editor. Tags in templates are replaced by that content. The most important reason though is that they both have an area for the page templates that is easily accessible, both have options to use one tempate for all articles or many. The complete template for each area of the site is in one location including the stylesheet, menus, etc. so changing layout, css, menus etc is a simple matter of doing it in the template area of admin. I can change the site menu in ten minutes especially if I include it in all templates as an include. Also, especially in the case of movable type (using static pages). is that one can take any existing page on any website, drop it into an empty tempate as is, save it and it will be published to were it is wanted. Then remove the content (the article in the existing page), replace it with a tag, save it to admin as an entry,and the tag will be replaced with that content. Then that content is editable in one place free and separated from the page html. MT is perl but php can be used in the templates, EE is php based and also can use php in the templates. Just a few thoughts... Bruce P bkdesign ----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Ross To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 6:43 PM Subject: [WSG CMS] Client - Site Edits (I am not attempting to cross-post here, but am simply putting this question to the correct list in an attempt to get further help with this issue. Thanks...) Hi all, I am trying to find a solution to a nagging problem. Most of my client's sites are not very dynamic and I update them as the client requires. Because the updates are very infrequent, I have not been charging very much for this ongoing support. However, I have a new client who wants to maintain her own site (one I designed for her). She is pretty good on the computer, but doesn't really know her way around HTML or CSS. I am agonizing over how to "pass the torch" over to her. The site is not extremely complex, but is more than a little task for someone who does not design web sites. I am wondering for advice on this situation and I am also wondering how others handle ongoing updates after the initial design has been implemented. I am also wondering if a CMS system would, in any way, be a solution to a situation like this. Thanks. Regards, ************************************************************** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************** ************************************************************** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **************************************************************
