8.3.08

Content Management Systems


It is clear that the best approach in creating a new and improved website would be to base it on a well kept and already existing CMS that would allow for easier updating, preferably entirely workable by a less technically literate person. This would allow for the website to be completed and for that to be the end of involvement to the most part by the website designer, handing over the day to day maintenance work directly to the client.

Although the website hosting plan that is being currently used is of quite low cost and thus low bandwidth + available space, the actual service it provides is fairly feature filled with cPanel pre-installed and PHP/MySQL/ASP.net support and so forth. This means that although the website there currently doesn't make use of any of these features it would be more than possible to do so.

So what do I require from a CMS? Really the most important thing I need is a simple way for myself or a member of the Food Dreckly staff to make changes to any one of the pages quickly and without much technical jargon between them and the update.

When first looking into various CMS I started thinking how I could use the original website template and replace the content of the pages it loaded to that of blog posts from an external blog hosting website. This would not only reduce the amount of bandwidth that the website would require, but also be a well kept and easily manageable system to get to grips with.
Firstly I had a look at using blogger for a system of blogging directly to the website. Or rather the website retrieving the blog posts.

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