Can this be done?...

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Im looking at the potential of Coffee Cup, but i need to know if a certain feature is available...

I've been asked to build a site for an estate agent & they need a page that they can add
a photo & some brief text for each property (without the need for any web software)

I am currently using XSite & unfortunately this is not a feature available.

Thanks.
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If the company wants to edit the contents online. a CMS is what you need. CoffeeCup has no cms at this time, but it is possible to create a site with the HTML Editor and afterwards turn it into a cms by the use of php and mysql.
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Inger makes a great suggestion. I use
http://www.phpjabbers.com/simple-cms/:)




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hi thanks for the quick replies,

This my sound sad but it seems a bit over my head at present.

Im a new comer to web design in a lot of aspects, i have used a few platforms,
but my expertise is graphic design more so, i have built a nice site for him but
i don't want to have to edit it on a weekly basis for him :(
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Well basically Steve all you would need to do is make them a MySQL database, (give them the info like log in-username and password) copy the certain code of which the image and text , then they can just sign in and replace that image and text in the CMS and not have to add anything into the page itself. Hope I explained that right! :)




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Thanks alot for your help.

I don't want to be a quitter but even though you have made it clearer for me im
afraid its probably a project i will abandon as i dont have the time to delve to deep
into the web design world, i have enough running my printing business!

I was only doing it to help the guy out as i have designed his whole corporate
identity & produce a lot of his printing, this was something i don't usually offer
but he insisted lol
I thought it would be a nice change, i usually only do my own stuff so i've never
had an issue before, i've been using XSite for its ease of use but it has no cms
feature, I tried wordpress but found it very limited on design / features.

Thanks anyway guys i really appreciate your time, sorry to mess you about!
:)
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Well the only other option I would think would be to send them the website and have them do the editing themselves and upload the changes I'm sure you knew that. Well best of luck Steve




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aye that was the first thing i thought of but i don't think they want to go that deep
plus they don't want to buy software, you know customers they want everything
their way :)
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lol I know what you mean!




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Have you thought of using Visual site designer, and creating a template for a new page

Then they could add a new page themselves by duplicating your template page, only takes a second

Drag and drop in a new picture, and edit the text

its own built in ftp will do the rest for them

if you have not tried VSD its worth a free trial download and its not going to cost them much at all if it works for them

template i made for a friend here http://www.sarahphotographer.co.uk/frie … nsue1.html (need not be a photogallery like mine just an image or two)

viv
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