making webpage editable for others (CMS?)

[gpguy83]

I'm not to sure about this...or where this belongs...this is my first post...i am trying to figure out how to make it so that on a webpage i make that whomever i am making it for can edit things/upload new pics/etc without me having to do them. like having editable regions in the page or what? from the handful (of CMS's) i have tried (mainly PHP ones), these are scripts where u can CREATED a webpage without having html/coding/etc knowledge...i need it so that a page i've made (using templates/css/html/etc) and uploaded to a server/host...so that someone (who doesnt know html/coding) can go in to a URL or something and be able to edit the txt/images i have on those pages...but not change anything else. i could be missing something/doing something wrong but from all the ones i've seen/tried its so you can CREATE a site without having coding knowledge...not EDIT an EXISTING site. i'm not sure how to do it and i really would like to find out how, can someone please help?!

[whythehellhaveibeenbanned]

You can use Joomla to set up a site, and make it so all the pages are editable by people... however dont forget the security risk of just anyone editing the site, another feature of joomla is that you can make people register before they are allowed to edit any of the pages.

Craig

[minute44]

If it's for the public to edit then something like joomla is the way to go.

If it's just one or two people within a company then macromedia do an app called contribute. It allows end users to add or edit content.

Be warned, it's super duper...wooper expensive though.

[atlaskid]

The cutenews CMS has a feature where you can make people different ranks. Like you could make one person the lowest rank of an admin, so he can only edit small parts of the site. All the way up to giving someone else complete control over the content that gets dumped to your site. I duno' if thats what your looking for or not.. ah well

[moojoo]

I would look into something like Textpattern. You can grant users access levels etc and it is pretty straight forward and easy to install, configure, and integrate your current stuff into it. http://www.textpattern.com Joomla is pretty good but it is not the most friendly and is a bit more difficult to customize as far as looks etc.

[gpguy83]

moojoo...one of the first ones i tried to use was textpattern....i installed it/etc...and it pretty much erased what site was there and i couldnt find out a way to make it to like recognize there was a site there and to have it so it can edit that site not make a new one...did i miss somehting or?

[sypher]

I think you need to take a step back first, dont run before you can walk.

Learn all of XHTML/CSS and learn about using external stylesheets to seperate design from content, once you have grasped these you will then be able to grasp using dynamic code.

[moojoo]

Thats odd but always do a backup before installing anything like that anyway. Textpattern has never done that to me so I don't know. How it works is it doesn't use "Files" for your pages. You create pages within the CMS and everything is run from the database. It rocks. newguyinennis.com runs on it as will my new professional site and all my clients sites.

Originally Posted by gpguy83

moojoo...one of the first ones i tried to use was textpattern....i installed it/etc...and it pretty much erased what site was there and i couldnt find out a way to make it to like recognize there was a site there and to have it so it can edit that site not make a new one...did i miss somehting or?