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I recently encountered a situation where a woman had a really ugly website, and a friend and I were redesigning her brand (she didn’t really have one to begin with). So the next thing on the list was her website. She was using an online do-it-yourselfer where she could input the text she wanted via a web application and it would update it on her site. This gave her control over her content. Great! But the problem is that she was wary to do a new, much better website, because she was worried about not being able to do her own updates.

I know she could purchase Contribute, or some software, but I was wondering if there is an online solution, so she doesn’t have to purchase and learn a different piece of software? Is there something that you know of, where I can design the site, code it up, and then it can be loaded into an online service as a template so she can still make her own changes online?

Is this something Joomla! does? I toured their site but couldn’t get an idea if this is what they specifically provide.

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There is lots of options out there and Google will give you plenty of answers.
if you just want a CMS you can “plug in” to parts of the site checkout Perch or SurrealCMS.

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I found one called CushyCMS that looked promising. I was wondering if anyone had recommendations, services they love etc, so I’ll check those out that you mentioned.

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Have you looked at something as simple and cheap as PulseCMS ?

Make a web site the way you normally do, then create editable areas, which are loaded as php includes.

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Another CMS with editable sections you can take a look at:
PageLime - Simple CMS for Web Designers

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Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Pagelime looks pretty cool. I like the live page editing. That’s good for clients to visualize the changes directly on the page.