CMS in Dreamweaver

Please help....
I have almost finished a site for a client who has NOW informed me he would like to be able to go in and edit text and photos. Whithout using "cushycms" or any other online site how can this be done?
Thanks in advance

You can build the administration pages yourself. I suggest you consider using WebAssist's DataAssist to help. I use it on nearly every site I build.
http://www.webassist.com

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Cushy CMS - (very basic)
No scripts or databases required.
Watch their video to see how it works.
http://www.cushycms.com
Content Seed -
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Concrete 5 -
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http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/11/10-free-powerful-content-management.html
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I have not personally used either of these on a production
system, but
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WordPress
http://www.themedreamer.com/
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Randy
> I'd like to build a news-oriented website that takes
advantage of Dreamweaver's
> design capabilities, but utilizes a Content Management
System.
>
> The goal is to build a dynamic site that will be updated
with 5-10 new items
> per day, and have those live in a searchable database.
>
> Can anyone recommend a CMS that works well with
Dreamweaver? Or offer any
> other suggestions as to how to achieve that goal with
CS4 as the backbone?

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> Of course they are looking for taxonomy
> options, etc which we can't get for Contribute. Any one
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Hi, we are a small graphic and web design company.
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customers (rightly so) "we want to be able to update photos and
text ect"
I allways find when I ask the client that they actually don't
want keep adding photos and text all the time but just want the
power and convinience to do so.
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and have the client send the text and photos to replace and upload?
Build a basic cms through dreamweaver and replicate this
whenever a client might need this functionallity?
Find a 3rd party CMS that can <--! include ? Does anyone
know one of these????????
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Most of my clients ask for some sort of CMS these days and if
there's
nothing too complicated about the site, then I usually use
Wordpress as
a CMS. I used to build my own simple CMS but find that these
days there
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time of
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something
that can do the job. I know a few people here recommend
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who asked
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because they've
not got the time, or because they haven't sat down and
learned how to
use the CMS. They often don't realise what's involved in
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website.
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them for them!
ottz0 wrote:
> Hi, we are a small graphic and web design company.
>
> With the expansion of CMS etc and the constant enquires
by customers (rightly
> so) "we want to be able to update photos and text ect"
>
> I allways find when I ask the client that they actually
don't want keep adding
> photos and text all the time but just want the power and
convinience to do so.
>
> My question is: Should I bulid a static site for the
client and have the
> client send the text and photos to replace and upload?
>
> Build a basic cms through dreamweaver and replicate this
whenever a client
> might need this functionallity?
>
> Find a 3rd party CMS that can <--! include ? Does
anyone know one of
> these????????
>
> Start putting clients onto something like Jooma or
Drupal?
>
> I know there are plenty of variables here but again the
client always wants
> some form of control and when it comes down to it they
really don't.
>
> eg I built an asp site in DW for a client and she asked
what can I have
> control of and I asked her what did she want control of
and She said
> everything. I then said why was this is and she said
something like just in
> case.
>
> Again the shifting of design into more Dynamic control
for the client and what
> is appropriate??
>
> Thanks
>

Dreamweaver rame

Bonjour,
j’ai un problème avec Dreamweaver et le temps d’exécution des opérations quand je travaille sur des templates construits avec un CMS. Dreamweaver est d’une lenteur la-men-ta-ble j’ai la toupie colorée qui tourne sans arrêt à chaque modification que j’apporte, bref il est tout simplement impossible de travailler dans ces conditions.
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Edit-2: Ok, avec la désactivation de JavaScript (ou avec la commande "figer") Dreamweaver à le temps de prendre du souffle, mais par moment on ressent tout de même qu'il est à la traîne... d'autres conseils à me donner? Merci.

If there is a solution, you'd probably find it on the Adobe forums:
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On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:53:07 +0000 (UTC), "irl_123"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi,
> I am trying to implement a CMS in Dreamweaver MX 2004
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>Product table contains fields that are not relavent to
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>moment i have given these the value NULL. Is there anyway
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C:\Documents and Settings\Ian\My Documents\Websites\GB Forklifts Test Site\httpdocs\
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