Yeah, I would not get involved with helping them manage their blog. As a programmer, I want to stay way from those scenarios. Eventually they will want to redesign their site, and you will be stuck doing a massive change on the system to match.
I would suggest to break away from having the same design. Let a marketing company take care of the homepage and you focus on having the best UI for the system that people will use repeatedly. There is no right or wrong, those are just my own experiences. On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Jonathan Christensen <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the responses Kevin and Rafael. The two systems don't need to > be coupled aside from maybe a shared look and feel in the header/footer. > > I am looking to do something like what Rafael suggested although it would > be so sweet if there was something a little cleaner and less hacked upon > than WordPress that was also installable in heroku -- even if heroku forced > me to do it as a separate app with it's own dynos that would still be nicer > than two separate hosting platforms. > > The things I want to be able to do are some static pages and a blog. > Nothing all that special. But it is stuff that the client will want to > control so I don't want to roll my own CMS features. > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Rafael Cardoso <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am answering what you don't want to hear, but we usually go with >> separate apps, and now we just use WordPress. It becomes a hassle to >> maintain the rails cms, and eventually the marketing folks wants to use a >> wordpress theme. >> >> I would recommend trying to split the app and the website, if that can be >> done in your situation. >> >> What is your specific need that makes you want to couple the system to a >> cms? >> On Apr 21, 2015 1:37 PM, "Jonathan Christensen" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi SDRuby, >>> >>> I dug through my old email thinking I'd seen this answered on this group >>> recently, but didn't find it. Sorry if this is a duplicate question. >>> >>> I have a rails app that I want to 'decorate' with some pages that I want >>> to be managed by a mature CMS. I'd rather use some CMS that is the new >>> hotness than using WordPress. >>> >>> So my question is a two parter: >>> >>> 1) What is the new hotness in CMSs?-- I care more about simplicity for >>> the client than about features and extensibility. >>> 2) Anything that would also play nice with Heroku so my client doesn't >>> have to pay for two hosted environments? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> --Jon >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> SD Ruby mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "SD Ruby" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> -- >> SD Ruby mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "SD Ruby" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SD Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
