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Here is a little bit of background of what I am trying to do... I have always designed using dreamweaver and I have gotten fairly good at it and enjoy using it. I have a client who operates a photography studio and I am totally redoing her site. In the past, I have only been a designer, using html for informational sites. But she is needing a couple of custom things that I have never done. The first is just giving her the ability to remove and add new/old photos from the galleries that I will be setting up to showcase some of her images. She is wanting gallery similar to this sites galleries http://www.babycakesphotography.net/pure/index.html I can do this in dreamweaver but I am not able to give her the ability to add and change things. She also wants to have individual pages for clients complete with log in screens and passwords so that she can create after their sessions so they can view their images. Because I am so used to working in DW, I have become so frusterated with CMSMS. Is it possible for me to do the majority of her site in dreamweaver and only use CMSMS for those two things? Please help. It would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hi Shelly,

ShellyLynn wrote: The first is just giving her the ability to remove and add new/old photos from the galleries that I will be setting up to showcase some of her images.

Sounds like Album module

http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/album/

She also wants to have individual pages for clients complete with log in screens and passwords so that she can create after their sessions so they can view their images.

So you should look for FrontentUser/CustomContent modules

http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/frontendusers/
http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/customcontent/

Is it possible for me to do the majority of her site in dreamweaver and only use CMSMS for those two things?

Please look (once again  ) for TemplateExternalizer

http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/externalizer/

This module allows you to use any text editor to edit CMS templates and stylesheets. It exports them to temporary files on the server and watches these files for modifications which are automatically imported into the database and take immediate effect.

So it will be possible to layout template/stylesheets with DW.

It's possible too to insert external html files with embed or piiframe tag but it makes no sense for me ... in german we say "champaign or seltzer" (means all or nothing).

If you need help - here's the right place  .