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- CommentAuthormskatiekat
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2006
I have a potential client with a much more complex site than I normally work on. I'm not a programmer so I have very little programming knowledge (just enough to tweak Javascript, ASP, and PHP code). I need a CMS that allow me to divide the site into major categories, then subcategorize the site further. Also, there will be an event/calendar functionality on the site.
Before I take on this project, I'd like to know if it's possible to find a designer-friendly CMS that supports multiple categories and subcategories as well as event/calendar functions.
Thanks! -
As a designer and not a programmer, I've managed to master Wordpress with not too much graft. No coding required, unless you want to do anything out of the ordinairy, in which case a wee bit of PHP is all you need usually.
It can do categories and subs, and has an event/calendar plugin or two that you can use. In fact it has plugins for most functionality you could ever need - contact forms, gallerys etc. Support on the forums from the user base is great too. If you need any assistance drop me a line ;-)
http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/ might be worth a look also, although I found it less straightforward than Wordpress and didn't get beyond testing it. -
- CommentAuthorseth.aldridge
- CommentTimeOct 18th 2006
There are several things to consider here:
1. What is the budget of the site?
2. How much work you want to put into it?
3. How much time you have to complete it?
4. What hosting platform are they on?
Something you might not have considered is outsourcing/freelancing that part of the project to another company/individual that handles that stuff all the time. It can make your job a lot easier...but if you just randomly pick a company you'll never know what you'll get or how easy it will be. There are a lot of CMS's around the world and they all boast the same thing. I would highly recommend a company that does more than just CMS development. While they are undoubtedly good at what they do, programmers in general do not understand design...just like most designers in general do not understand programming.
Thanks,
Seth
http://www.re-volvemedia.com -
I'm in the middle of using CMS made simple for a site at work and once you get the hang of it (it uses the Smarty templating system) it's really pretty easy to use. It's along the lines of using wordpress backwards (ie: it focuses on static pages but also lets you do rotating things using the news module, as opposed to doing frequently updated stuff (a blog) and letting you add static pages).
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Smarty sounds interesting - it does bug me that Wordpress isn' t great if you have loads of static pages... but is there an admin panel behind it to enter the content? Not clear from the website, no sceenshots etc.
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but is there an admin panel behind it to enter the content?
For smarty itself, no, it's just a template language system. It doesn't do any sort of native interaction for stuff, just gets used to structure your markup.
so, in the case of CMSMS, something like this...{assign var=newscount value=0}
<ol>
{foreach from=$items item=entry}
<li>
{if $newscount<1}
<h6>{$entry->title}</h6>
{if $entry->summary}
<p>{eval var=$entry->summary}</p>
<div>
<a class="readmore" href="{$entry-?phpMyAdmin=4594f30712f4fabaff6997416810f3f2>link}">Read more</a>
</div>
{else if $entry->content}
<div>
{eval var=$entry->content}
</div>
{/if}
{else}
{$entry->titlelink}
{/if}
</li>
{assign var=newscount value=$newscount+1}
{/foreach}
</ol>
...could be used to pull out a list of news items and only show a blurb for the first one. But the actual engine for getting the news items out is done in CMSMS and the output is just controlled using smarty.
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