Hacking a existing site into a CMS

13yearinvestor · #1 05-11-2009, 11:17 PM

I am just working on this at present and need help.
I have built a couple of sites and the clients want to be able to update and edit when they want (understandably) So CMS from what I understand is mainly to be used at the start of the building process? I want to do it the other way around and implement it after that site is already built. The clients don't know HTML or they would have built the sites themselves. I have looked at Mambo and briefly Drupal. I can't figure either one of them out to use the way I want.

The closest I have come to finding something I understand is thru the CPANEL on the host site, Sibername. By logging in and going to the File Manager there is an html editor there and if I place comment tags in areas that are simple enough for them to edit they maybe able to accomplish something. But I was told that this really isn't a CMS.

Any ideas for this simple minded Designer? I am just not getting it.

Thankyou

johnnyhRE · #2 05-11-2009, 11:37 PM

Do you need to allow your clients the ability to create new pages, or just edit existing pages?

I recommend cmsmadesimple.org.

You can use any existing design and port it to CMS MS.

For example, lets say your design is as
<html>
<head>
<title>My web page - company name</title>

</head>
<body>
<div id="wrap">

<div id="content">

[[ HTML content images, etc here ]]

</div>
</div>

With CMS MS, you simply add in their code to make it editable:

<html>
<head>
<title>{title} - company name</title>

</head>
<body>
<div id="wrap">

<div id="content">

{content}

</div>
</div>

Then in the backend, you create pages and the contents of the page are loaded into the HTML using the {content} tag in your template.

Obviously there is a lot more to it to get menus, side columns, etc., but the concept remains the same.

BalaFurf73 · #3 12-02-2009, 09:29 AM

Please dont start going off-topic here now, we dont need a ROM Hacking Resources Discussion discussion thread. :3

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