Adobe muse - How do I add cms?

Question

Hi I've designed a couple of sites in adobe muse now, but i'd like to know how to add cms for potential client to update sites I design for them. Can you help me please?

Answer 1

I actually agree that WordPress (self hosted installation) could be the way to go (not exclusively, but a CMS software, either open-source or even proprietory). However, learn to code to offer a point of difference (I'm assuming you already know how to design a good site - the other point of difference).
I'm probably biased as I love the ability to have control over coding my site designs (to me, Muse is cheating, I've used it - any good designer can design a site - but coding it up yourself is a fantastic skill to have. Just my opinion).
WordPress is free, yes, but it's essentially a free CMS. For me, I used to have to charge clients  for a CMS component to my site developments before the open source ones came about, so in that respect, for many sites, the CMS cost component has been elliminated for clients (some still choose to go the proprietory way). WordPress is probably the easiest CMS for clients to learn to use at the level they need to edit their own content for smaller sites (note I'm calling it a CMS, it stopped being just a blogging tool a long time ago). I can see where the comments are coming from that are saying to stay a way from WordPress, as there are many people out there calling themselves 'web developers / designers' who have found WordPress and have thought, I could use this to make some moolah, but they don't know how to go further than installing WordPress, activating a plugin, a theme (they may even know some basic css to customise the theme), and then charging people for something that they could do for themselves for free. I doubt some of them even know how to secure a site.
However, as a CMS itself, WordPress is actually very powerful, and can power a pretty large, serious site. A comment earlier mentions that the destinction between cheap and professional is apparent, and it's true for WordPress sites. You can tell the sites that use it for free, as a hobbyist, or have done it themselves (and if someone is charging for this, look at their site and client sites - you can tell straightaway if they know what they're doing - if their site & client sites look templated but they're charging web designer fees, that's a dead giveaway to steer clear ).
For me, I use WordPress on some sites as a tool to give my clients the CMS capabilities they need (along with other open-source and proprietory CMSs). If developers had to pay for WordPress as a piece of software, I'd do it. However, I go far beyond what people can get for free from it, and give people what they can't do for themselves, such as custom professional web design & development, design of their site to suit their whole branding strategy, functionality way beyond the core offerings of WordPress, and education on how to keep their sites secure (WordPress is popular, and hackers know this.)
As a designer, Adobe tools are a must (I'm a graphic design as well as web designer). Illustrator is my preferred choice for web design proofs for clients, InDesign for print, Dreamweaver I use for coding (by hand - I just like the way it colour codes the raw code).
If you need to offer professional web design as a service, with CMS capabilities, and want to go with with WordPress, or Drupal, or Mod X , or CMSMS, or a proprietory system, and don't want to outsource to a professional developer who knows what they're doing, then learning to code is a must, not an optional extra - CSS is not difficult (need to be aware of cross browser limitations though), HTML is so easy, PHP is harder but is worth knowing, for other CMSs the Smarty Templating language is often used, other web technologies can be handled by outsourcing to serious developers/programmers. Learning how WordPress works (from the backend) is not enough. Learn how to develop with it. If deciding to go with WordPress, don't rely on free plugins, get some very good quality premium ones (just the core set) and be prepared to spend some money on these tools. (Would you use a tradesperson who only relied on free or cheap sub-standard tools?) - Machine generated code is no substitute to hand written code. (Remember the old ImageReady and the spurfluous generated HTML from a sliced layout? Yuk!)
I can say,  if you are a very good front end designer and can design a site layout, then learning how to develop that layout for a CMS is very satisfying indeed - at the very least, start by learning how to code it into a HTML layout with CSS, get some initial help with this from Dreamweaver and go from there. Code for me is another tool to add to my Adobe toolset to satisfy creative output.