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I am sold on the idea of EE, commercial copy with Forum and MSM modules. I know that EE is a CMS that supports the backend of a website.

I am designing and building the front end in Adobe Master Collection C5. Another learning curve (I work alone and have no deadline, but want the site up by the end of the year). I am not sure that Dreamweaver generates clean HTML, but I can go through the code to verify. I will have Flash, videos, wiki, discussion forum, and a blog. The content will be varied, including short stories.

Questions:

1) I am not clear how my web-ready content generated in Adobe gets loaded into EE. Is the interface an automated process or a cut and paste process?

2) If I purchase EE with the add-on modules, I can build and publish completed modules incrementally as they get done, right? I don’t have to have the whole site complete before I publish any pages or modules, right? That wouldn’t make sense, but I have to ask.

3) I will be using 2 distinct domain names, thus MSM. For now, the second one is for blogging only. The main domain name has several alternate spellings (e.g., KnoWarrior.com, nowarrior.com). The host server points the alternative spellings to the main name. They don’t count as addition domains, do they? Their purpose is for a search engine to point to the main name for those who search under alternate spellings.

4) All this is being done on an iMac, Mac OS X 10.6.4, 64-bit. Any problems working with EE from the Safari browser?

I am not clear how my web-ready content generated in Adobe gets loaded into EE. Is the interface an automated process or a cut and paste process?

You need to add your HTML code to EE’s templates. That can either be done by copy & paste, as you have said, or by saving EE’s templates as files and working with those.

2) If I purchase EE with the add-on modules, I can build and publish completed modules incrementally as they get done, right? I don’t have to have the whole site complete before I publish any pages or modules, right? That wouldn’t make sense, but I have to ask.

Yes, you can publish as much or as little as you want at any time.

3) I will be using 2 distinct domain names, thus MSM. For now, the second one is for blogging only. The main domain name has several alternate spellings (e.g., KnoWarrior.com, nowarrior.com). The host server points the alternative spellings to the main name. They don’t count as addition domains, do they? Their purpose is for a search engine to point to the main name for those who search under alternate spellings.

The MSM is for using separate “sites”. You can easily have multiple (sub) domain names point to a single site, or certain sections of it. This would all be done server-side, though.

4) All this is being done on an iMac, Mac OS X 10.6.4, 64-bit. Any problems working with EE from the Safari browser?

There should be no issues with a Mac. In fact most of our developers are using one 😊