Designing for content management systems Advertisement Designing and indeed front-end development for a website that will have content edited by non-technical users poses some problems over and above those you will encounter when developing a site where you have full control over the output mark-up. However, most clients these days want to be able to manage their own content, so most designers will find that some, if not all, of their designs end up as templates in some kind of CMS. By considering the CMS as you design, you can maintain far more control over the final output. Know your enemy Content Management Systems vary greatly in how much control they give the designer and the content editors. Where the content editors are concerned you should find out: Will the editors be able to insert any HTML tags into content areas, either by way of a WYSIWYG editor or directly? Many people use WordPress as a CMS. Keep it consistent However flexible your CMS is, it is important to consider the consistency in your design templates.
Elgg A Micro CMS Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal – Should you look outside the big 3? Whenever someone decides to launch a website, or hired to do so for a client, he’s given three broad choices which will define how they’ll proceed: static HTML, a CMS or Flash. The former being practically dead due to inflexibility and the latter being not only inflexible, but extremely costly to produce, the CMS route seems a dead end; more specifically, the Open Source CMS route. Dead end it is. Try raising the simple, innocuous question “Which CMS should I chose for my site?” on any public forum and a war seems to spring right out of nowhere. The fighting fractions are what I usually call The Big Three: Drupal, Joomla! Swatting flies with a baseball bat The hidden truth behind the aforementioned question is that not all software is created equal. Far-fetched as it might sound to the die-hard fans of The Big Three, none of them is exceptional in creating and maintaining simple, structured, web sites. Minimalistic genius Necessity is the mother of innovation. When size matters
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