I have been getting the request from a few clients that they want to be able to update their sites after they are developed. Does anyone know an easy way to do this?
I was considering Joomla or another CMS but do you need to learn different skills to be able to design on those platforms?
Essentially I want to design a site using CSS and HTML as I would normally and just insert a program that would allow clients to edit items such as pictures and words. No real page creation is needed I don’t believe. Any assistance would be helpful. Thanks.
Using any of the major systems really isn’t that hard as they all have their own theming API’s. Take a look at Wordpress to start with. I think you’ll be surprised at how easily your current skills will transfer over.
Thanks a lot. I currently use wordpress as a blogging platform but I am aware some also use it as a CMS system. If you have done this do you have an example site? I always feel that wordpress sites still seem to look like blogs but maybe I just haven’t run across a good example site.
I had a couple of sites about a year back in Joomla and they had been hacked about 3 times as far as i can understand this is a flaw with Joomla but i could be wrong anf i dont tend to use it after that problem.
How about Wordpress? You would be surprised how durable the platform actually is when it comes to the visual appearance of the website. People tend to use it “out-of-the-box” in the sense of the visual display, but it wouldn’t be too hard to adapt pretty much any design to work alongside that CMS solution.
That is exactly what I needed. Thanks. I’ve been looking at designing wordpress sites for a while but never really got into it as much as I should have. With these excellent examples of how it can be used as a CMS as well I have no excuse to not dive in deeper. Thanks a lot everyone you have been a huge help!!
It only has that vunerability if you leave it vunerable. To get to the admin section you normally just add /administrator to the URL and that’s what script kiddies use to identify Joomla sites. Then most people leave the username as the default ‘admin’ and that just leaves the password to be hacked, no problem.
To prevent that the very least you should do is change ‘admin’ to some other username and delete the default admin account, there’s a plugin called Jsecure that allows you to change the URL so people can’t even get to the Admin backend anyway.
Joomla is very easy to use but will require some client training, like Wordpress. Another option though for client editing is Contribute, an off the shelf wysiwyg editor.
It uses a mixture of tables and Divs. If you’re wondering about Standards compliance or SEO or anything like that it’s fine for all of them. I’m not saying use Joomla, it’s a personal choice, just don’t write it off because of one underinformed opinion on how secure it is.
No problem, would you believe I use joomla? I’m planning to take on Wordpress pretty soon since they’re two of the top CMS’s out there I need to be able to make a recommendation to clients based on practical experience of both. I think it’s going to come down to how easy the back end is for a client to use and I can say that Joomla is pretty easy to use for a non-webby.
Im probably going to take wordpress for a spin myself since I’m already semi familiar with that platform. I’ll probably talk to you later in the “how in the — do I get this to work” section of sitepoint :).
I’m planning to take on Wordpress pretty soon since they’re two of the top CMS’s out there I need to be able to make a recommendation to clients based on practical experience of both. I think it’s going to come down to how easy the back end is for a client to use and I can say that Joomla is pretty easy to use for a non-webby.