I was just wondering if to use freeway to create a cms with webyep or something like cms made simple would I have to create css usng the box model so nothing was positioned to be absolute. For example if I had some text and them this might need to grow to a bigger piece of text when using one of the CMS would this put everything out of sync (ie things overlapping etc) if I didn’t use the boxmodel CSS positioning.
I would avoid completely CMS Made Simple. It’s free, but it’s a rough road to go.
As far as your ‘layout’ question it comes down to really what you’re looking to do. If you’re doing a three-column layout, for example, with two sidebar’s on each side of a main-content area then you’d have to consider if those sidebars were going to have multiple ‘areas’ of content. You could still box-model the site, but you wouldn’t have to go ‘all out’ and box-model the whole thing.
What I mean by that is, again with the three column example, you could draw out three absolute positioned html items and then insert empty HTML Item’s into each sidebar item, however many items you wanted in each, and then rinse and repeat with the other side. The point being is that you wouldn’t have to build the whole thing box-model, just parts of it. Hopefully that makes sense.
In my opinion I’d learn to build sites both ways as the box-model can be more frustrating to setup, but more rewarding for dynamic loading content that who knows what size its going to be. Plus also if you build a site box-model style then the layout holds if people expand or shrink down your text.