CMS for Dreamweaver designed site

HI, I designed an 8 page website for a friend with dreamweaver cs3 and he would like to access the pages himself to make text changes from his own PC.
Is there a CMS that he can download and use to change text and images on a website desinged with CS3, I see from other discussions Webassist and Cushycms mentioned, but are they suitable for CS3 designs.
Thank you

This should have been discussed & in your contract well BEFORE you began buiding the site. It costs more and requires extra coding to make a CMS site. I hope you plan to bill for all the extra work involved.
#1 find out if your client's server supports PHP & MySql. This will be required for just about any CMS you decide to use.
#2 The CMS you choose will depend on 4 things:
     a) your coding skills,
     b) client's requirements,
     c) your server's programming languages,
     d) project budget.
Below are some links to look at:
COMMERCIAL CMS
Perch ($59 license per site)
PHP & MySql required
http://grabaperch.com/
Media Carbon (formerly called "Content Seed")
No databases required
Available in ASP or PHP "Seed" versions
http://mediacarbon.com/
WebAssist Power CMS Builder (Extension for DW) Now bundled with Design Extender
http://www.webassist.com/dreamweaver-extensions/powercms-builder/
Adobe Business Catalyst (subscription includes CMS & web hosting)
http://www.businesscatalyst.com/
OPEN SOURCE
Get Simple CMS -
PHP, no database required.
http://get-simple.info/
e107 CMS
PHP & MySql required
http://e107.org/
WordPress
PHP & MySql required
http://wordpress.org
Joomla!
PHP & MySql required
http://joomla.com
Drupal
PHP & MySql required
http://drupal.com
Concrete 5
PHP & MySql required
http://www.concrete5.org/
Nancy O.

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I've come across a slight problem. I brought a domain name using Wordpress.com and have a rough blog there - very messy.
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AliPaterson wrote:
I've come across a slight problem. I brought a domain name using Wordpress.com and have a rough blog there - very messy.
OK it is pretty easy to do.
1) Contact Wordpress.com guys and tell them you want to host a static site somewhere else because they don't allow static sites on their platform; Therefore, they should give the name of your registrar or you could tell us what is your site called so that we can tell you exactly who your registrar is.
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3) Ask them or find out yourself by logging into your account,what the DNS is so point to your your site.
4) You now need to log into your registrar's website and enter the dns details for your site.
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Media Carbon (formerly called "Content Seed")
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- http://kb.worldsecuresystems.com/153/bc_153.html
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As for image slicing, I find that annoying as well. In Photoshop I never really liked the way it worked. I sliced a few images and then trashed most of the others. I tend to go for simple designs and focus on making it mostly CSS, so when I slice images it's usually a 1px wide/high gradient which would get repeated. I don't need image slicing for that. As for graphic intensive sites... well... really, you should review that. People still have slow connections and having a lot of graphics is just bad, even if your client wants it. You might as well go with flash, and waste some more bandwidth
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The MS-fonts should be fine, I just want to know that I am looking at an accurate representation of what I my windows customers will see.
Fonts won't help you much there. You know most people use IE, so you need to view the website in IE regardless, and that means you need Windows (I think wine uses some weird IE version which uses gecko). Maybe there's some good Linux alternative for viewing stuff in IE, but I just view it on Windows. Also the font shouldn't change the general layout of the site... I don't see how that would be a problem unless it's some weird font that not everyone has, in which case you'd use @font-face anyway...

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I built sites a few years ago and am getting back into it. My traditional workflow would be to mock up a site in photoshop, slice it up, open the html file in Dreamweaver which would have the images put in a table, then do some editing, insert the rollovers for the nav bar, make that into a template and use it for other pages, etc. I realize that this process is now woefully out of date, so how does one go about doing a semi basic website the "right" way these days? I know a little bit about CSS but I've never used divs before.
Also, how wide are people designing sites these days? I used to make my sites around 760 pixels wide, considering people would have their screen resolution set to 800x600. Do people still use this width as a safety measure or are you designing for 1024x 768 these days?
Thanks.

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page.php - This file is responsible for calling the appropriate content from the WordPress database that you setup. It also calls the sidebar and the footer.
sidebar.php - This file houses whatever you'd like to appear on the side of each page. It also summons a admin-configurable "widget" area, that you can manipulate through your dashboard.
footer.php - This file wraps up the document with your closing </body> and </html> tags, among other elements typically found in a footer (copyright info, etc).
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The Grammy Awards (http://www.grammy.com/)
The Emmy Awards (http://emmys.com/)
Eric Clapton (http://www.ericclapton.com/)
Duke University (http://www.duke.edu/)
Rutgers University (http://rutgers.edu/)
Harvard Science & Engineering Department (http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/)
Reuters (http://labs.reuters.com/)
Mensa (http://www.mensa.org/)
Mattel (http://mattel.com/)
Zappos (http://about.zappos.com/)
Nokia Research (http://research.nokia.com/)
The Whitehouse (http://www.whitehouse.gov/)
Here's an article published last year that details almost 200 high-profile Drupal sites:
http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites
How many sites total use Drupal? Estimated at over 7 million.
Here's a few WordPress sites:
ELLE Girl (http://ellegirl.elle.com/)
Tom Jones (http://www.tomjones.com/)
Sylvestor Stallone (http://sylvesterstallone.com/)
Ryan Seacrest (http://ryanseacrest.com/)
The Columbus Foundation (http://columbusfoundation.org/)
Wake Forrest University (http://www.wfu.edu/)
Kobe Bryant (http://kb24.com/)
TED Blog (http://blog.ted.com/)
TechCrunch.com (http://www.techcrunch.com/)
NASA.gov (http://www.nasa.gov)
Jive Records (Sony/BMG) (http://www.jiverecords.com/)
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