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smity_873 · 08-02-2007, 13:04

Hi,

I have been asked to do a site for someone who does garage service's and on one page he wants a for sale section that he can update easily now i havent a clue how to do that is the some software or something to be able to give him a side where he can update or does that have to be written by me????

digitaloctane · 08-02-2007, 13:06

Google "content management systems" You can probably find a barebones cheap one to use.

smity_873 · 08-02-2007, 13:14

Thanks ill look into it, are they easy to set up?

digitaloctane · 08-02-2007, 13:31

Majority of CMS's are plug-n-play.

pgo · 08-02-2007, 14:30

Check www.opensourcecms.com for free, open source, PHP/MySQL based CMSes. Most come with installation instructions.

Not exactly "plug-n-play", but they're generally easy to set up.

sjd · 08-02-2007, 17:02

I favour http://modxcms.com at the mo. It's also got a nice bit of functionality that allows the user to edit a page from the front end, so you can create the site and then give your client the ability to edit only the content of the 'for sale' page.

pgo · 08-02-2007, 21:34

Modx looked promising to me, but the admin panel is awful.

sjd · 09-02-2007, 04:59

I'm not sure which version you've seen, probably the nasty orange/blue one, but they've updated it for the latest 0.9.5 release and it looks much better.

hawken · 09-02-2007, 05:01

might not worth the hassle. Bit overkill for one update area.

why not use a cgi script?

digitaloctane · 09-02-2007, 08:08

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Originally Posted by hawken

might not worth the hassle. Bit overkill for one update area.

why not use a cgi script?

Thats the problem, He doesn't know anything about that. Plus, if the client wants to update one section, and they get it... they will eventually want to update additional sections. Best to use the free cms and have the ability to expand upon only one section having content management.

smity_873 · 09-02-2007, 09:15

Thank you everybody!

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08-02-2007, 13:06	#2 (permalink)
digitaloctane Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Rhode Island Posts: 24	Google "content management systems" You can probably find a barebones cheap one to use.

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smity_873 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 34	Thanks ill look into it, are they easy to set up?

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digitaloctane Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Rhode Island Posts: 24	Majority of CMS's are plug-n-play.

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pgo i'm done, son Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 12,262	Check www.opensourcecms.com for free, open source, PHP/MySQL based CMSes. Most come with installation instructions. Not exactly "plug-n-play", but they're generally easy to set up.

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sjd Registered Abuser Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Manchester, England. Posts: 174	I favour http://modxcms.com at the mo. It's also got a nice bit of functionality that allows the user to edit a page from the front end, so you can create the site and then give your client the ability to edit only the content of the 'for sale' page.

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pgo i'm done, son Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 12,262	Modx looked promising to me, but the admin panel is awful.

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sjd Registered Abuser Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Manchester, England. Posts: 174	I'm not sure which version you've seen, probably the nasty orange/blue one, but they've updated it for the latest 0.9.5 release and it looks much better.

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smity_873 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 34	Thank you everybody!

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