Have been coding, in quite a lightweight way for about 10 years, and always through the conventional way of working on a page on my pc and then uploading it. Yesterday, I was offered a small contract working on a website, but it’s all via sms! I looked all through the cms and talk about confusing! and they work with something called widgets within the coding, which sounds as though they use them to include content from another page, does that sound about right?
It does seem very ‘clanky’ working on a website via cms!
The question is this - is it possible, for me to somehow download the pages onto my pc and then for me to work on the pages as I have done with others?
Just because you can’t comprehend something doesn’t mean you should write it off as “clanky”. If anything you should use it as an opportunity to embrace things your unfamiliar and increase your overall marketability. I don’t think many people can say they instantly understood every aspect of a existing system from the get go. It always takes time and a willingness to learn. There are probably several reasons why a cms is being used over static files. Most websites these days that are not pretty much useless run on some type of content management system. Could you imagine maintaining thousands of templates where all products in a eCommerce suite all look the same – I sure couldn’t. Content management systems make it possible to create a single template and load those thousands products from a data source. So instead of managing thousands of HTML files, only one is needed. That is just one common aspect contingent across most well known content management systems but a very important and especially efficient one.
Many thanks Phil and Oddz for the further info - it does seem to be a more cumbersome way of working, but do agree that if I can master it, it adds to my marketability
