Question for Web Designers

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Just a question for all those Web Designers.

For Customers that have no knowledge of HTML, PHP, etc and would like to update their site themselves do/did you build your own CMS or an use an Open-Source type CMS?

Or perhaps you allow them to update some other way?

If you use a pre-built CMS which one do you use so you can use it Commercially e.g. for profit in your web design jobs?

Seems like a strange question but I’m just interested really.
 
Not a a strange question at all, i made my own one and streamlined it into only 10 or so 'admin' files, that way I can just reuse it on the different websites i build to run in the background once the user/owner has logged in.
 
ASP & Access, used to do PHP & MySQL but i'm forced to use ASP in work unfortunatly and have just gotten used to it.
 
MagSafe said:
ASP & Access, used to do PHP & MySQL but i'm forced to use ASP in work unfortunatly and have just gotten used to it.

Interesting, I'm a bit of an Access fan due to its ease of use.

But is Access not frowned upon within the Web Community?
 
JamesU2005 said:
Interesting, I'm a bit of an Access fan due to its ease of use.

But is Access not frowned upon within the Web Community?

Yeah, i quite like it as well because you know where you are with it. Its suppost to be a bit slow for high traffic websites but my work use it for their main site and practically every other one and its fine, we've never had any problems with it. The websites i've been using it for are small, low-traffic ones with 10-15 pages on them so they've been fine with Access.

To be honest, i've been planning on getting back into PHP & MySQL for home use for a while now, as its more mac friendly, but haven't got round to it yet, its pretty much the same as ASP though. Personally i'd recommend you PHP & MySQL properly and use that rather than going the dark & dreary M$ route.
 
I always build my own - it somehow seems less effort than trying to customise someone elses.

ASP and MySQL for the last one.
ASP.Net and SQL2005 Express for the next one.
 
Sure!

ASP and MySQL were the limitations of the hosting company I was using at the time (circa. 4 years ago) - there was also a cost issue if I wanted to use SQL 2000. And ASP.Net was pretty new at the time and I didn't really like the way they implemented it in 1.1 (I much prefer the 2.0 implementation) - so stuck with ASP. Additionally MySQL offered better functionality (fit for purpose) for my needs (ranked search results and data paging).

Next project is an upgrade of the above (the site has taken off, and now the technology is having trouble scaling with both enhancements to the site and an increase in traffic). SQL Express for cost and Database size/performance reasons.
 
Mr^B said:
Sure!

ASP and MySQL were the limitations of the hosting company I was using at the time (circa. 4 years ago) - there was also a cost issue if I wanted to use SQL 2000. And ASP.Net was pretty new at the time and I didn't really like the way they implemented it in 1.1 (I much prefer the 2.0 implementation) - so stuck with ASP. Additionally MySQL offered better functionality (fit for purpose) for my needs (ranked search results and data paging).

Next project is an upgrade of the above (the site has taken off, and now the technology is having trouble scaling with both enhancements to the site and an increase in traffic). SQL Express for cost and Database size/performance reasons.

Slightly off-topic, but what host was it that you found supporting SQL express? When I looked (~10months ago) they were all saying they couldn't do SQL express for one reason or another. I had to plump up bigbucks for fullblown SQL2005 :(
 
I always do my own CMS, i try not to use other people's scripts unless i can't do it myself.

PHP and mySQL
 
huppy said:
Slightly off-topic, but what host was it that you found supporting SQL express? When I looked (~10months ago) they were all saying they couldn't do SQL express for one reason or another. I had to plump up bigbucks for fullblown SQL2005 :(

I opted for a co-lo server of my own this time round - much better. It's very hard to find a good virtual host these days who will allow you to install what you want, etc...
 
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