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Integrating CMS and Dreamweaver

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Question: Is there CMS built into Dreamweaver CC or any Adobe CC programs? If not, suggestions?

A bit longer: I have a couple of clients that just want to do quick updates on their own and not have to submit website change requests to me. They have NO webdesign experience, which is why I built the sites. What they are looking for is a way to edit information quickly on their own and not have the pages negatively impact their SEO efforts.

Thanks in advance,

-Bill

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Correct answer Nancy OShea

A backend CMS is not typically something you slap onto an existing static website.   It needs to be described in detail at the beginning of your projects so you can set-up the best possible framework, program what's required and bill the client accordingly.

The type of CMS you choose will depend on:

  • Budget
  • Client's requirements
  • Ease of use
  • Your coding skills
  • Databases and programming languages on the server.

Perch, Joomla, Drupal and WordPress all require some skills with PHP & MySQL.   Business Catalyst is hosted on Adobe's servers.

If you've never built sites with these frameworks before, there is a learning curve.

Nancy

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Nancy OShea
Nancy OSheaCorrect answer
Community Expert
November 16, 2017

A backend CMS is not typically something you slap onto an existing static website.   It needs to be described in detail at the beginning of your projects so you can set-up the best possible framework, program what's required and bill the client accordingly.

The type of CMS you choose will depend on:

  • Budget
  • Client's requirements
  • Ease of use
  • Your coding skills
  • Databases and programming languages on the server.

Perch, Joomla, Drupal and WordPress all require some skills with PHP & MySQL.   Business Catalyst is hosted on Adobe's servers.

If you've never built sites with these frameworks before, there is a learning curve.

Nancy

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Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
B i r n o u
B i r n o u
Community Expert
November 16, 2017

sorry, I did not understand the question correctly, because I thought that the author knew PHP, and that his question was whether DW integrated a CMS to offer its customers (the customers of the author) a more flexible solution for updating the data ... look at the video I made, I show the autocomplete aspect for the WP framework ...

pziecina
pziecina
Brainiac
November 16, 2017

My suggestion would probably be controversial to some, and would also depend on how many products or pages are involved.

If the site is for 5-10 products then you could use css regions, which would allow your clients to create the content for a page or list of products with only minimal understanding of html, (e.g the use of h1, p, and image file paths).

The way it works is that you create the page(s), and the content separately (different files), and css regions then flows the content into the position you the developer specify for it on the page.

Even though css regions is only supported by 2 browsers, a polyfill, (created by Adobe) does exist and works very well. For more info on css regions see -

https://webplatform.github.io/docs/tutorials/css-regions/

and

https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-regions-matter/

a demo of it being used with css grid layouts can be watched at -

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=6r8YLaugyeo

B i r n o u
B i r n o u
Community Expert
November 16, 2017

I agree and like your idea... I've made a tutorial on that one (I think I'd asked you to review it at that time, don't I ?)... but the only problem is that it imply that clients have an HTML editor , FTP settings, and as you said a basic (very basic) HTML knowledge... and that is not very often the case (compare to what WP workflows are)

B i r n o u
B i r n o u
Community Expert
November 17, 2017

pziecina  wrote

I don't want to give offence to doctors, nurses, engineers and technicians, but I've found after years of working with them, that if you tell them not to do something, sooner or later one of them will do it.

Maybe I should just set up a seperate 'play' site for them, so that they can do what they have been told not to do

Bought a  stethoscope today and a 2 hours training video on open heart surgery..............starting new job tomorrow.

The whole concept of the web has evolved into complete madness these days.


the metaphor you use, would rather compare to the work that is incumbent upon us and not that of our clients ...


today we do not ask our customers to create the templates, its structure and the architecture of the site .. we are here to help them and if we use wordpress as framework, they will then only fill the content ...


and to stay in the base of metaphor with a stethoscope ...


say we take a stethoscope and in two hours training we can learn to read the blood pressure, listen to the breath during a breathlessness, understand the cardiac rhythm ... but that's enought to assume a daily control without having to run to the medical center every day

    K
    Community Manager
    Kratika AgarwalCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    November 16, 2017

    Hi,

    You could log a Feature Request Go to  Help > Submit a bug/Feature request in DW.

    Thanks

    B i r n o u
    B i r n o u
    Community Expert
    November 16, 2017

    nope DW doesn't integrate any CMS... (and that's really fine)... but you can work with DW and set

    site > options du site > conseils de code spécifique au site as demonstrate in this video https://www.screencast.com/t/8DPQ6HL3

    (sorry there is no sound)

    and DW will autocomplete all the needed information concerning the CMS.

    by default, DW integrate 3 type of predefine CMS (Joomla, Drupal and WordPress) but it's free to you to manually set any kind of CMS... The CMS Matrix - cmsmatrix.org - The Content Management Comparison Tool

    concerning your clients needs and expectation... today you can use any page builder extension present in Wordpress (some are free, some needs a premium account)... but you can find piece as

    that is really helpfull because it allows your user to simply create well structured content, and respect your visual templates, fill up metadatas easly, staying accessible... well if the template is well done...

    in the same way, you can also use different platform market, where you can also get (at a reasonable price) template with support... that way, your clients wont have to pay a higher price to get a great quality web site, being responsive, updated frequently, and easly maintainable

    now back to DW, it become really easy for you to develop your own child template, personnal plug-in, and still let your clients play with the content

      BenPleysier
      BenPleysier
      Community Expert
      November 16, 2017

      This is the closest thing that Adobe comes to CMS Adobe Business Catalyst

      Other possibilities are

      or you could design your own

      Wappler is the DMXzone-made Dreamweaver replacement and includes the best of their powerful extensions, as well as much more!
      C
      cdeatherage
      Inspiring
      November 16, 2017

      Explore something like CushyCMS, or Perch--there are one or two others whose names escape me at the moment. They allow you to create editable regions in your html that can be updated by others without breaking the code. Each gives the client something like a Word or WordPress interface that would be easy to use.

      Chris

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