CMS content in a website

Hi,

I may be starting a project soon that requires a couple of pages on a website to be CMS ’able by the client.

I’ve not really looked into this area before in detail but am thinking about Wordpress. Can anyone give me an overview of things I ought to be thinking about prior to putting finger to keyboard?

Also is it common practice to do the whole site in WP or just the pages that require CMS content.

Is it hard work coding for WP compared with say a normal XHTML /CSS aproach?

Cheers

Dan

Best advice, wordpress is not really a cms, it’s a blogging tool, that a lot of people seem to want to turn into a CMS .

Can I ask exactly how many pages need to be editable, cause there are several smallish scripts that will handle a limited number of pages (eg. 3-4)quite easily.

Something like Joomla or ExpressionEngine would be a massive waste for a site with only a few pages.
WordPress would also be a little over-powered for a small site (especially if the site doesn’t have a blog.)

Try looking into CushyCMS which is perfect for small sites.

I’d go for wordpress as its easiest to code.

For minimal pages i recommend you Frog CMS .

For ease of use i recommend ModX CMF .

Can I ask exactly how many pages need to be editable, cause there are several smallish scripts that will handle a limited number of pages (eg. 3-4)quite easily.

Hi, I think approx 10 pages with only 2 or 3 being CMS . I had not intended to setup a blog but that might be a nice option for the future.

Would like to understand more about the scripts.

Also could you expand your thoughts on WP?

Cheers

Really, give a chance to Frog Cms. It is what you need. Here are a few examples of sites made on it.

Bedrich Rios and his reasons for the switch.

Pigmata Media team and outline the thinking that led them to using Frog.

WP is easy, stable and powerful at the same time.

I’d recommend Wordpress.

@justbrown1980 Wordpress is a “publishing platform”, it is used as a CMS on many sites now because of its flexibility, it is no longer seen as blogging software per say rather as a foundation to build sites upon.

I specialise in Wordpress as a CMS for most of my clients so I would highly recommend its use as a CMS backend. It’s easy to integrate with your designs, can add so many extra features, for example I’ve used the posts section as news sections on company sites etc. It’s free and open source so there is a massive community behind it, so any problems you have can be fixed with in a matter of hours if not minutes.

I’ve never come across FrogCMS but it seems like a good idea for smaller sites. I’d always go for a free open source solution because of the community behind it, you don’t want to have to deal with commercial support every time you have a problem.

Go Wordpress

Thanks so far, the second part of the question.

is it common practice to do the whole site in WP or just the pages that require CMS content.

Is it hard work coding for WP compared with say a normal XHTML /CSS aproach?

Cheers

Dan