CMS - Questions, need help.

[pickledgurkin]

Hi guys,

I need your advice.

I've created a standard static website with HTML & CSS.

Now, this website is simply a menu. And I need to be able to give a user the power to be able to login securely, edit/add/remove content. Without having any knowledge of HTML etc. As far as I know, this is usually called a CMS.

I need to be able to figure out how I can incorporate this type of system into my current static design.

Can anyone recommend any resources, books etc for me to learn how to do this? I understand that this will be a huge leap considering that I really only know HTML & CSS. But I'm willing to learn.

Cheers,

The Gurkin.

[ray326]

Maybe a review of the apps hosted at http://opensourcecms.com would be a good starting point.

[Webjedikungfu]

If your server can run PHP scripts, check this out. Great tutorial to show how it's done.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/78/0.php

Hope it helps

[pickledgurkin]

Thanks for the help guys.

[Plooscva]

CMS is not a website technology nor nothing that will allow you to create a dynamic website from scratch. CMS is a acronym for Content Management System and examples of it are PHP-Fusion, jPortal. Now, these things are done using server-side scripting languages in both of these cases PHP. So CMS is basically an web application that can be for example administrated from a panel and all data is saved in a MySQL database. PHP: Hypertext Pre-processor is a programming language used to output code to the browser (HTML mostly, whatever happens on the client side) dynamically. For example it can retrieve all comments from a MySQL database and then wrap them round in HTML as you want it and display it. There is also ASP which is also a server-scripting language.

Now, I never believed an online tutorial can teach you a programming language from basis to a decent level. It's always good to spend some money on a book. In my case I bought "PHP, MySQL and Apache" by Julie C. Meloni. In a week I went from knowing nothing to basic interaction with MySQL.

Plooscva

[Beppo5]

check out www.joomla.com.
great cms and it's free.
It's got a huge user base with plenty of help. It is comlicated to figure out and at first seemed counter intuitive to me but once I got a handle on it I found it pretty easy.

You will have to change your code around a bit to facilitate joomla's application hooks.

Here is a good article on how to structure content and how menus work. Should help to orient you.
http://www.compassdesigns.net/tutorials/joomla-tutorials/a-beginners-guide-to-organizing-your-content.html

Check it out and feel free to PM me if you have any questions. (if this board supports pm, I am new :o )

Best

[Beppo5]

Here is a good step by step video for setting a joomla system up.
http://www.buildajoomlawebsite.com/?gclid=CN6FhpyPuYwCFR3qgAodYmDQIQ