Content Management

Hello,

I'm new to Dreamweaver and want to know what CMS systems work best wtih DW8.
I've used Frontpage previously and I used something called Content Seed
which didn't require any coding knowledge in order to implement and my
clients were able to easily manage it from the web.

Thanks!
Beverly

Hi Beverly,

Unfortunately no CMS works *with* Dreamweaver, except for the check-in /
check-out feature in Dreamweaver itself. Although I wouldn't go so far as to
cam this a CMS. Subversion however is an excellent CMS that I'd recommend
you take a look at. http://subversion.tigris.org/ It's a very powerful
open source system.

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"Beverly" <forums (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Hello,

I'm new to Dreamweaver and want to know what CMS systems work best wtih
DW8. I've used Frontpage previously and I used something called Content
Seed which didn't require any coding knowledge in order to implement and
my clients were able to easily manage it from the web.

Thanks!
Beverly

Macromedia (Adobe) pushes Contribute.

Remember Dreamweaver is a development tool a CMS ia an online Application that
edits html.

You could develop,edit, style, the CMS app in dreamweaver but you wouldn't use
dreamweaver too edit through the CMS.

Shane

Hi Beverly,

In the past I have used Microsoft VSS (Visual Source Safe) as a code/content management system.

TPK

Macromedia (Adobe) pushes Contribute.

Though I wouldn't necessarily call that a CMS. It's more of a page editor.
Useful, for sure, but in a slightly different class than what most people
consider a CMS to be.

You could develop,edit, style, the CMS app in dreamweaver but you wouldn't
use
dreamweaver too edit through the CMS.

Excellent way to put it.

-Darrel

In the past I have used Microsoft VSS (Visual Source Safe) as a
code/content management system.

VSS is for code versioning. It's not a CMS.

-Darrel

Ok, so I'm not sure if Contribute is what I need then....

My current client is a real estate guy who wants to be able to
add/remove/edit his property listings as their status changes. This would
include adding/removing photos, text, etc.

Would Contribute be a solution for someething like this?

Thanks!
Beverly

use something designed for that-

http://www.open-realty.org
php/mysql/active open-source script

My current client is a real estate guy who wants to be able to
add/remove/edit his property listings as their status changes. This would
include adding/removing photos, text, etc.

"Beverly" <forums (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Ok, so I'm not sure if Contribute is what I need then....

My current client is a real estate guy who wants to be able to
add/remove/edit his property listings as their status changes. This would
include adding/removing photos, text, etc.

Would Contribute be a solution for someething like this?

Yes, if you want to install software on his machine, show him how to use it,
and support it in the future, and if he wants to (and has time to) learn new
software.

It's not very hard to use Contribute, but just a word of advice about
clients asking for CMSs: I find that many of those who ask don't have the
time and energy for working on their own web site. I've even known clients
to pay *me* to use the CMS I've installed for them. Also, in my experience,
most clients are picturing that you just have to click a couple of buttons
to make it possible for them to just start typing right into the browser,
and when they find out that a CMS will cost them a couple of thousand
dollars, they quickly agree that paying me a few dollars to maintain it will
be fine..


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Yeah, I made the same mistake by recommending Subversion... My eyes saw
content manager but my brain was thinking version tracking since that's what
I've had my head buried in for the last couple weeks. Sorry if I added to
the confusion.

For Content Management - for *static* sites, Contribute is not a bad choice.
There's a pretty easy workflow between Dreamweaver and Contribute and it's
really easy to use. I have a client with 6 computer fearful users in a
County Government office using it and one day their administrator called me
and asked if she was doing something wrong "because it just can't be this
easy" I assured her that it was that easy and they have been tickled with
it ever since. Now if you have a dynamic site or the site is going to be
huge then more robust database driven CMS will be in order, but that doesn't
sound like what you are replacing or looking for. Sounds like Contribute
will work fine.


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"darrel" <notreal (AT) nowhere (DOT) com> wrote

In the past I have used Microsoft VSS (Visual Source Safe) as a
code/content management system.

VSS is for code versioning. It's not a CMS.

-Darrel