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We own a web buisness and have many different clients that use a CMS system that… to tell you the trooth is very crappy. I have been slowly trying to get all the sites away from coldfusion (the current CMS) and slowly migrating them to PHP based systems. The next major step is to find a CMS system that meets our needs.

I am looking at this product and so far i like what i see, except for one thing… the method of the header and footer. Our clients are not very computer litterate, but they want to beable to create their own pages, however i and most of them do not want them to have to put a header & footer into each file, but rather when they make a new page, i would like it to only beable to edit the content and automatically append the header and footer to the content they want it to be wraped around.

Yes, i would like them to beable to edit the header and footer, but i do not want them to make every page on their site to look different.

Is this something this CMS system supports? or am i missing it all together?

Thank you

PS: i am a php programmer myself, but i figure why make my own cms system when i can probably find one to fit my needs for much less.

Welcome to the forums, ALL,

Yes, this can be done.  What most people do is set up a weblog as a data container with custom fields for describing site element content.  That could be as simple as a custom field like static_content.

Then they create their HTML template and make a footer, then use a weblog entries tag to pull in a specific ID to that footer.  That means that a user can easily edit the content of the footer, without any possibility of hurting the overall layout.

You can do that with any part of your template, of course.

Does that help?

You might want to give EE a try, check out our trial options =)

I’m sure you’ll be able to get EE to work for your needs if you take the time to learn it. There is a learning curve though, it tool me a week or two of messing around to really get that ‘light bulb moment’ you’ll hear about in some of the introduction videos (which are worth checking out). But once you get it, you’ll never look back (unless you want an integrated shopping cart option, but we’ll see what EE 2 brings… sorry, had to say it).

ok, i figured most of it out, however there is one thing that i still cannot figure out…

how do i make the webblog a page of it’s own?

Do i have to get EE to use the page’s module to have a webblog on it’s own page? (i figured out how to append the header and footer, but unsure how to append only 1 webblog and how to corrolate it to know which one it should pull)

to tell you the trooth i am a little irratated that i cannot try EE free before i make a commitment :(

Hi, ALL - did you go through the Getting Started materials and look at the default templates?  You would use a weblog entries tag with weblog=.

And you can try EE free, but using EECore from the list of trial options that I linked earlier. =)