I've been building a site (already hosted at a domain) for someone who wants the capability to edit it themselves but they do not know html and would rather be able to visually edit it. Has anyone moved their site to a CMS (preferably wordpress) while keeping the same look of the site and could give me some pointers?
Thank you
You would need to learn how to create templates for wordpress and then recreate your theme using their way of doing things. Its not very difficult for someone used to css/html/php but there is alot of functionality you need to take in so you wont be doing it overnight.
This is a good place to start: http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
If you are simply looking for an easy to use WYSIWYG editor for Html you could try to implement TinyMCE in your current site. I've used this myself and it is rather nice.
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I was wondering if I needed to learn javascript and or php to make a site that can move content from page to page as new content is added (like a blog). I was thinking of using wordpress and wipe the design and write my own css, but seems you need to do a $30 update to have access to css.
Is there a free site (like wordpress) that could help me out with the php part or whatever is needed to have this kind of functionality? How many hours would it take to learn php to get the 'blog' running correctly if I only know html/css right now, with a bit of javascript and can manage jquery plugins.
Thanks alot for any answers.
If I recall correctly, WordPress is entirely free and fully customization per your liking - no charge.
PHP would be your answer to do this, and Javascript would only help compliment the transitioning. If you've never tinkered with PHP or any other software programming language, you will spend months perfecting this. It's a whole other ball game.
But like I said, WordPress is entirely free and modifying the CSS is as well. I've never heard of a $30 charge to change WordPress CSS file.
You're talking about upgrading a WordPress.com site where they host it for you and strictly control what you can do.
You want to go to WordPress.org - it's free and you can do whatever you like - but you do need to sort out your own hosting.
My client needs function for editing and updating the website content (text, image etc) with ease. Not with FTP or other thing but rather just page from where he can edit easily..
I found some website which provide this service a year back. The procedure was simple
1) Click the Admin button and enter credentials
2) Now in place editing feature is enabled.
I know there are javascript for inplace editing but i do not need that..
I want a MODERATOR page from where i will (admin) set which content he is allowed to modify.
I tried using
PHPMYEDIT
and was happy but the program is too old fashioned there are many thing which are not updated..
Just like the PHPMYEDIT i need a Program OR a service online which have a feature of
Existing website content editing / update / delete / modify
My website is in PHP / MYSQL / JAVASCRIPT / JQUERY and other addons.
Kindly suggest a solution to my problem.
recently i came up with a site
http://grabaperch.com/
that does exactly what i say but it is little complex (for the client) still suggest any thing like that. Suggestion are welcome..
Important - The pages/content are static
I've used a service called CushyCMS before, with varying degrees of success. It does require that you add a class to the HTML selectors that you wish the client to be able to edit.
It is a type of 'lite' CMS without really being a CMS (it just hides the FTP transactions in the background and gives a simple WYSIWYG interface.
Hope that helps
If you can convert the website into wordpress it will be the best solution
If grabaperch.com is little complex for you,
take a look on Uzuvi, https://getuzuvi.com
This very little CMS also, like Perch, can be a drop-in editor of existing website.
But Uzuvi console UI has ultra simple design.
Need to say this CMS has no moderator feature you mentioned, may be yet.
I have a website that I've developed, which includes hand-written php, html, css, and js. I also created the MySQL database.
I've recently brought someone on who is going to make the website look better, but his experience is limitted to working with Wordpress. I'm wondering if it makes sense for him to the the front-end "skin" work with Wordpress and for me to edit the files as needed so they submit data to my php files and connect to my database. If the php generated by Wordpress is reasonable, this seems doable in theory.
The other way would be to take the html genrated by his php and use that as my starting point for hooking into my php processing files and database.
He sent me a dump of the files created after he created a simple webpage and there seemed to be a lot of extra stuff in there.
Can anyone with experience in this comment? I'm hoping there's an easy way to do this.
Thanks.
The default procedure for me that always worked well:
You provide outlines/simple sketchups/your old layout, so the "designer" knows vaguely how you want it to be
You define what the site should do ("there should be a button to...", "there should be a list of..., when you click on it..."). So he knows what happens and what site follows another. That's important! He must understand the site.
The better you do the above, the better the results you get from the designer will be
The designer generates layouts in pure HTML with CSS: Example sites with example data, where everything you said before is integrated.
You cut up the HTML-code and integrate it yourself in your php-code
This procedure has also the benefit, that an external designer does not get in contact with your application's internal php-code (and cannot "steal" it). And you can dry up your internal code when you integrate the HTML you get.
I'm building a website with a homepage that has a different article everyday. I know how to change it using html, but that requires daily maintenance. Is there anyway I can change a picture and text daily without changing code everyday? I'd also like to be able to see the previous days' article by using an 'older' button or something.
I'm not asking for the whole code by the way, just for someone to point me in the right direction. Thank you
It sounds like you're looking for WordPress.
How about a Content Management System like Joomla? If you're just doing static content updates, that may work well for you
You probably need to utilize CMS to match your needs.
You Can Make this by adding the article and images into the database. or images in the folder.
You can google for better article for doing this.or you can use cms e.g. joomla , wordpress.
Thanks
I'm pretty new to wordpress (only a couple of days), but I have it up and running on my website with the default theme. First of all I would like to change this theme. I have found a tutorial directly from wordpress but it is extremely vague: http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development. I'd like to have a totally different layout for my website though, with only one page being replaced daily with a different article - a new article everyday basically. But I don't know where to start. I want to first create the theme though, I think that will put things in to perspective. How do I do so? I know the principles of php and enough about html and css to create whole websites. Thank you
That link should tell you everything you need to know. You basically just edit the theme files to get the layout that you want. The best way to learn truly is to experiment. If you have a specific question I could help you with that, but to tell everything involved in creating a custom theme would go way beyond the scope of an answer for this site.