Considering purchase of CMS builder - have question

Hi Julie,
I know it's not exactly what you have in mind but this page may be of some use to you as it shows what some of the data fields look like.

http://www.interactivetools.com/products/cmsbuilder/marketingcopy.html

There aren't any shots of the full page however which shows the CMSB name etc (so that web designers who want to rebrand the product can use these images).

From personal experience I have found the most computer illiterate of clients are able to use the system with ease. I don't even have to provide instructions - I just give them the login info and they are able to pick it up. Each section is clearly labelled on a menu along the top, they click it and then see the boxes to enter data like on the page above. I tell my clients that if they can type, they will be able to update the site. I find it also helps to compare the WYSIWYG editor to the way MS Word works (with the text formatting) as everyone is familiar with that.


I'm not too sure what you mean about "locked" portions, but I gather you are thinking along the lines of how the dreamweaver templates work where you cannot edit a template and have to make editable fields.

With CMSB you will take your completed web pages and insert small snippets of php code so it knows where to generate the data. So in that sense there's no way a client could edit any of the html they are not supposed to touch.

I hope that helps :) If you have any further questions please ask!

thanks for your fast response to my question! Sounds like it will work fine for this project. Just wondering, though, if I create multiple areas that are to be editable on one page, what will the user see so that they know they are updating the correct portion of that page?

Sorry if this seems obvious, but I just want to make sure this will work for this client.

Thanks!

Julie

Hi Julie,
You can add as many areas for each page as you like.

When you set up each area you give it a title which is displayed next to that field. Each field is labeled with its title so it's clearly laid out and easy to see where all the info needs to go. You can now also add in dividers to appear on this page (the page the user will enter data) to separate content and/or add in custom HTML above a field (I sometimes like to do this to give the client extra instructions about putting information in a certain section).



If you have any other questions please feel free to ask :)

great - thanks!