Hello I got a website with around 5-6 pages (plain html). There are areas in these pages where I need to update occassionally. Is there any free / opensource CMS to maintain these editable areas of HTML page.
Thanks
A:
http://drupal.org/ is very popular. Many people also use Wordpress - http://wordpress.org. Also try googling "simple cms".
The answer will obviously be dependent on the requirements of the software and the capabilities of your server.
Renesis
2010-02-25 00:24:10
strongly against drupal for a project of this size
davidosomething
2010-02-25 00:27:21
@davidosomething I would probably never use Drupal regardless of size... however, the only information I have is that the OP has a hard time updating 5-6 html pages without a CMS. Therefore I would be inclined to consider a CMS with extensive online help resources.
Renesis
2010-02-25 00:33:16
Any good reasons why a 5 page site may be too small for Drupal?
Rimian
2010-02-26 12:47:28
A:
You should also check out opensourcecms.com. You can try out various cms's there until you find one you like.
mlissner
2010-02-25 00:27:46
A:
For a five-page website, Drupal is probably overkill; I'd say Wordpress is good enough (just define a page for each page of the website, copy and paste your content, choose a theme, and you're done). (You would want to either use the blogging features of WP to take full advantage of it, though.)
If for some reason you really want to try out Drupal but don't want to invest a lot of time into figuring it out (it does take some ... well, a lot ... of time to figure out right out of the box), and you're not in a big hurry, you can wait a bit until it's possible to try out the new Drupal Gardens hosted CMS system (currently in beta). (You need a beta key to try it. Sign up for the beta on the site and then wait for your key.)
jrdixey
2010-02-25 00:36:30
+2
A:
Perch is excellent for small sites.
At its very simplest, Perch allows you to replace static content in an HTML file with placeholders. A simple GUI then allows you to edit those placeholder values for individual pages. So, for example, if you have a file containing this chunk of markup:
<h1>My site</h1>
you can change that to:
<h1><?php perch_content('Main heading'); ?></h1>
and you'll then be able to edit 'Main heading' through the GUI. Most CMS apps work in a similar way, but Perch is the first I've come across that does very little else, which is a huge plus for small projects.
I haven't used Perch for a while, and I'm sure they've added some features since I last did, but I'd still recommend you give it a try. It's cheap, too.
Bobby Jack
2010-02-26 23:39:57