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Just building my first site with EE and, although I’m finding it easy to use, there’s some things that don’t seem possible out-of-the-box.

The site I am currently building requires everything to be editable by the client. For example, their contact info in the page header. As far as I can tell, there’s no client-friendly way of doing this? Creating a channel for non-repeating content doesn’t make any sense and snippets/variables are too obscure and lack organisation.

Is there an established way of doing this?

Thats just the way EE works, modules like ‘structure’ can make more sense of static vs repeating content, (so can the built-in pages module once you get your head around it) but all you need to do is make a channel called ‘static’ or something, with a single custom field to hold the content. Then in your template you just have a channel entries tag, with dynamic=“no”, a specifc url title (since you know the exact entry you want) and disable=“member_data|pagination|categories”. Our clients find it easy at least. It does seem a bit unnatural but in the end it works out to be a lot more flexible than posts vs pages in wordpress. Or you could just use global variables or snippets if you want something slightly more efficient. You can make them less obscure by adding a link in the top nav for your client. Hope this helps!

Hello Sequence.

Welcome to ExpressionEngine and the forums! Dave offers some great advice. Channels are a perfectly fine way to handle this kind of content. But there are several other options too. I’m going to move this over the the Community Help Forums so the discussion can continue.

Cheers!

Low variables are good for that type of data. http://loweblog.com/software/low-variables/