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    website user interface

    Does anybody know of a service which allows clients to use a website interface to set up websites.

    Let me elaborate.

    Say I am offering service "A" to clients.

    Clients get to use template ready websites. All they have to do is upload content - text, images, video, audio and the site is ready to go.

    They do not see the Cpanel, no technical stuff, etc.

    Just plain and simple.

    If somebody knows of this service please share.

    Thanks.

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    Something like Adobe contribute may be useful if the pages are purely HTML?

    http://www.adobe.com/products/contribute/

    Failing that I'd personally go down the route of using something like Drupal, Joomla or Wordpress but this would obviously take some integration if a site is already in place but as you didn't provide any indication as to the status of the website then this seems like a reasonable suggestion if you're starting from scratch.

    Other than that, you'd probably have to create a bespoke admin system which could be done using PHP to write to a MySQL database which the frontend would then pull from the database.

    Just a few suggestions.

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    Hi Dave,

    Thanks you.

    Sorry to be honest but I have no idea of the technicals. Would it be possible for you to point me to a website that uses a similar web model. I think I will be able to understand this better when I see it.

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    There should be some information on contribute, on the link I provide above. As for the other three...

    http://www.joomla.org/
    http://drupal.org/
    http://wordpress.org/

    There's definitely demo's of how joomla and drupal work on their own websites. Wordpress is used mainly for blogs but some people do also use it for other purposes but obviously depends what the requirements of the site are. All these use PHP and MySQL for the functionality so a basic understanding of this is needed if you want to get in and modify the code and a decent understanding of HTML and CSS is required for modifying the look and feel.

    Obviously for a bespoke application, you can do whatever you want given the right skills.

    Hope that helps.

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