My CMSMS Sites...

[djkirstyjay]

Thought I'd share them with you all... I mean, let's face it, this is the BEST CMS around!

www.k9tenerife.com - A charity website for an Animal Refuge in Tenerife. Great use of calendar, album, and news modules to keep the site fresh and up-to-date with info about the dogs & cats. I used the album on this to set up a 'dogs in' section so that the charity can add photos and info about their latest additions and people who have lost their dogs can go online and check if they've got them... very useful!

www.canarianmum.com - still under construction, as it needs a LOT of info added, however this site is an information portal for people with or having kids in the Canaries. It's going to eventually have all the info on it regarding getting your children into school, registing births, midwives, doctors, etc. etc. I would like to do this as a wiki, if possible and have been wondering if there is a wiki module or some way of doing this using CMSMS, as I would prefer not to have to get rid of it

www.lapd.eu.com -  CMSMS using reservation module for a property maintennance and rentals company in Tenerife.

www.armadasur.com - going online in a day or two... a site in CMSMS for expat supporters of CD Tenerife football team. This uses the FrontEndUsers and SelfRegistration modules for the members area.

This really is a versatile little CMS isn't it?!

www.lapd.eu.com

[djkirstyjay]

Dunno quite what you mean, however I find that the CMSMS (although a little tricky to get your head round where everything is in all the different stylesheets is originally) is REALLY easy for non-websavvy clients to use. I don't think it's right to charge them for something that's free, so I charge them for installation and designing the templates and then give them a full sit-down tutorial so that they can update it themselves.

I'm in the middle of putting together a full idiot's guide to maintaining your site using the CMSMS CMS, so that after the tutorial they will have a reference book. You're quite welcome to it when it's finished, as is anyone else!!!

I find it a lot better to have them able to do it themselves as although it can create extra cash maintaining a site, I find it takes up too much of my time and stops me doing other projects and TBH, the design process is the creative bit... maintennance is the boring bit

[gogou]

Your site designs are really nice

It is clear that cmsms add value to a web site and it is also really nice for ppl that don't want to learn a little bit of html. It is quite difficult the first time to find everything in stylesheet but after 2-3 projects it is really easier. And finally you start making your own css architecture and just use cms tag yourself

For the service, I do the same. I just charge customer for installation, template design, page writting and support. I don't want to charge ppl for something free and Something I don't own. I also give them a 2 hour class on cmsms and documentations to help them maintaining their site alone, like that I save time for other projects.

Thas is why i like cmsms

[djkirstyjay]

It's nice to know there are other people out there that have a quality rather than rip-off mentality! The place where I live (Tenerife) is full of designers that will charge top notch and do sod all.... or produce rubbish!

I am one woman that has 2 (very young) kids and works from home because I can look after them. My php is basic, but coming along steadily and I believe that if you do a good website, it brings in more customers than having loads of bad ones to showcase.

Oh, and thanks for the compliment! Flattery will get you everywhere... 

[amygdela]

what's up with the redirects? Google will kill your sites for that....

[djkirstyjay]

Really?! I shall have to sort it out then. I thought google would just follow the links...?

[hamood]

Maybe off topic for this thread, but use 301 redirects for your webpage.
This is really the only redirect that google sees as good.

Or us a null-frame with content in the no frames- bdy, with all apllied links for your website.
This will help too.

[djkirstyjay]

What's a null frame or a 301 redirect?

EDIT : Scratch that... just did a search and found the 301 redirect php code.

Thanks for that!!! Learn something new... etc. etc. etc...

Oh, and for anyone else that wondered,

Just paste this between your body tags :



Or if you're not on php, there's a list of others on THIS page.

[amygdela]

beware that this particular code must be put on the very very top of your page, otherwise you'll get PHP errors.

[djkirstyjay]

Yes... figured that out after getting header errors and searching for the reason why!!! It said that there must NOT be any spaces before the <?php opening tag.

[amygdela]

exactly, and no spaces after ?> prefrerablly because if you use a HTML doctype and you add spaces or any charachters BEFORE your doctype, your browser renders your website in quirksmode.

[djkirstyjay]

Well... it sort of defeats the idea to charge for a CMS that's free! A bit too much like a rip off for my liking...

I'm a bit upset at the moment, as I've had to change one of my sites away from CMSMS to a wiki. I would have loved to keep it on, however there's no way of allowing visitors to edit the pages 'wiki-like' yet, and the site really needed it, as it's more of a collaborative contribution. the www.canarianmum.com one. Basically, as I live in just one place, but the site covers seven different Islands, there's no way to find out all the necessary information without contributions and I don't actually know people in these other areas, so I have set it up so that anyone can edit it (with registration of course).

[beeswax]

Hi,
like your designs. I'm interested in using a similar calendar to your k9 version. Which one is it?
beeswax

[djkirstyjay]

I found it on hotscripts. It's quite a simple one. I did want to use Kalender or Calendar, the CMS Modules, however Calendar only shows the current month and has problems if you try and click to the next month... the page cannot be found... and the thread for support on this forum doesn't seem to be addressed, and the same goes for Kalender... that one simple doesn't display at all!!! (I'm subscribed to both support threads and not had any notifications in a while.)

The link for the Calendar I used in the interim of something being sorted out on the actual CMS modules is here : http://www.calendarix.com. You can change the complete style to suit your site, but I haven't got round to that yet, as I'm busy on other stuff. As long as it's functioning properly that's not a top priority at the moment!

[beeswax]

thanks for the swift reply. I currently use the Calendar Module - http://www.falingepark.com/index.php?page=diary_dates on the school site, but it doesn't look right. It doesn't fit in at all, though it does work. I'm wondering if there isn't a way to use the calendar you recommend within the page?. When I've recovered from my return from holiday I'll have a look into it.
beeswax