I have a client who would like full control over their site… (every single page, text, images and headers!) I have suggested 2 different ways of going about this… the first was for me to produce the site in CMS and the second was that the client gets hold of a copy of Freeway and we go from there.
Obviously there are pros and cons for both ways of thought, but as my knowledge of producing a CMS site is still in its infancy… my preference is that they get hold of Freeway and I keep a close eye on the changes they wish to make.
This is my problem… they use a PC and I can’t see a PC version of freeway pro out there and not sure if there will be one on offer in the near future. My client does however have a copy of Dreamweaver… but my DW knowledge is basic as I favour Freeway so are there any alternatives???
I guess I could learn to use Dreamweaver but would much rather use Freeway as I use it every day.
For simplicity of setup you could go with something like MiniCMS which essentially leaves the page wide open for any kind of content wherever a MiniCMS object is placed. The action for this places a single html object in the page which then becomes an editable area in a web browser using an rtf editor very similar to TinyMCE. Within that editor, any kind of web content can be inserted. There is no limitation, which is a good and bad thing depending on if you have to go back and clean up the clients mess.
This leaves the client free to do their worst of course, but if that is what they want… This may cause a future problem for you if you ever have to go back and edit the original layout and the client still wants to keep all the content they added. You would have to make certain that the names of the MiniCMS areas do NOT change, otherwise all their content will disappear.
WebYep would work also and give you more control over the type of content of page areas, for example specific image areas could be designated. But if the client wants control of that also, this may be a tough sell.
As I didn’t add a title to this thread I started it again with an appropriate title… so think its probably best that I reply to that one otherwise the threads will become disjointed. (really sorry for the mess up)… entirely my fault!