Client Editable Website

Report · Nov 29, 2009

Hello,

I mostly design static sites. I have a client who want to be able to edit their site on their own once I get it designed and published. Any ideas how I do this??? I am hosting through GoDaddy.

Thanks!

Report · Nov 30, 2009

Denelle456 wrote:
I have a client who want to be able to edit their site on their own once I get it designed and published.

There are several options:

Use InContext Editing. At the moment, it's free, but it will eventually become a paid-for service. Price not yet known.
Use a content management system (CMS). You mention your hosting company, but not which server-side technology is supported on your plan, if any. Widely used CMS for PHP are Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, Expression Engine.
Build the back-end of the CMS yourself.

InContext Editing has the shortest learning curve, but I wouldn't recommend it except for very simple changes to a website. And if the client messes things up, it will be up to you to sort everything out again. Could become messy.

A ready-made CMS will provide you with a high level of sophistication without the need to learn a server-side language or database management, but they all have a considerable learning curve.

Building the back-end yourself gives you the most flexibility, but requires the most skill.