Is CMS what I should use?

[PeterTheBike]

Hi,

As you may have guessed by the question, I am a complete newbie to CMS.

I have a site that is being developed and one page has contents that are to be amended each month. It is a diary page so the calendar module would nearly do the job, but not quite.

This one page needs to be updated by whoever is available each month.

Is this an application for CMS? If yes, is it suitable for CMS Made Simple?

Thanks

Peter

[jptechnical]

Sounds like a good fit for CMSMS.

For your diary page you could use the news module it you want time stamps. Or you could just use a regular old content page, though it could get pretty long depending on the length of your posts.

Make a login for whomever will do the work or make a single logon and share the username and pass. The former would be preferable since you can look in the admin log to see who did what. Make a user group called contributor or author or something like that and only give it access to the things abesolutely neccessary. Then add the users to this group.

Welcome to the group, you will find everyone very friendly and willing to help.

[PeterTheBike]

Sounds like a good fit for CMSMS.

Thanks for that.

Another dumb question!

Do all the pages of the web site have to be in CMS Made Simple, I cannot just use it for the one diary page?

I use a website builder for the site and it would be quite a bit of work to move it all into CMS Made Simple.

Peter

[jptechnical]

Do all the pages of the web site have to be in CMS Made Simple, I cannot just use it for the one diary page?

You can use cmsms for that purpose. Just extract cmsms into a subdir in your wwwroot like yourdomain.com/diary and the diary page will be yourdomain.com/diary/index.php.

That would work just fine.

However, I am curious to know what your sitebuilder does that cms does not. What does it do that you don't want to let go of?

[PeterTheBike]

However, I am curious to know what your sitebuilder does that cms does not. What does it do that you don't want to let go of?

The main thing is I have worked out how to use it!

Since I first posted the original question, I have been guided into using a html form and passing that to some quite basic php to re-write the page. As the site is basically complete already, this is probably the simplest thing to do.

[Xorn725]

A shame to see you use something else, as CMS Made Simple is a great project.  However, it was probably a bit of overkill for the purpose you intended.  Best of luck!

-Jason