Does anyone know of an extremely easy / simple CMS?
What I mean by this, is an ASP CMS which will allow me to give users the ability to edit pages…that’s all.
I’m not after anything that allows them to create new pages etc. All I want to do is give them a list of pages, and they can click on the one they want and edit to their hearts content, save and that’s it.
Does anyone know of anything like this? All CMS apps I’ve come across are too complex.
Any info would be great!
Thanks!
Yet to find any that aren’t just terribly coded childs gibberish or bloated so much they take a degree to use!
Sorry, not ASP based, but you might try either WebSite Baker or CMS Made Simple. Both are PHP based, which should work fine on your site here. I’ve looked over most of the CMSes on http://opensourcecms.com/ and these are the two easiest to use ones I’ve found.
Good luck,
Tim
Insite Creation is a good and fairly simple CMS. Page creation is simply a HTML editor, but it has a great permissions system and a bunch of useful modules like newsletters, gallery, blog, etc.
Hmm they’re not really what I’m after.
I’m just looking for the most basic of CMS - edit pages, that’s it.
Everything’s too fancy nowadays.
Check this page out and go thu the CMS’s listed there. That’s about all of em, so you might find the one you want from there.
Stephen recommended e107 (from e107.org) which is superb, but…, it’s a php/MySQL cms. You can set it up with just the bare minimum of features. Maybe worth a look?
If you’re interested only in editing, have a look at FCKEditor, TinyMCE or Xinha. Neither of these are difficult to set up.
Create the web pages by placing the page content in a separate file and include it in the page template using a php include or an shtml include.
Hard code the content file paths into a simple php script which calls the editor with the appropriate content file. Make sure you password protect the editor folder, or use a password script to protect it (plenty available from sources such as hotscripts.com). I’ve used this technique for several clients with 10 or less pages.
Still haven’t found anything that suits my needs - it’s for an Intranet site at work, which only runs ASP, so PHP is out of the question - typical that 99% of CMSs are in PHP.
Just came across an old version of a CMS I had stashed away from days gone by…
Fuzzel Fish, Open Site Editor 0.2
It’s basically exactly what I want - you define what area is editable and call that page using engine.asp?page=
However, it’s very buggy, and doesn’t like tables very much, so don’t think I can use it for the site I’ve made.
If anyone wants to see the editor, I’ve uploaded it to;
FileFactory - Simple & Unlimited File Sharing
http://www.sharebigfile.com/file/35348/siteeditor.zip.html
What about using Adobe Contribute?
It’s not a CMS, but it sort of does the same job more flexibly than most.
$150 per user sounds like a lot, but I would say that the Contribute users I have have paid for their copies easily, simply by not having to pay me to change bits of text or links or update graphics etc.