Dreamweaver and CMS

[cloakedninjas]

Does anyone know of the easiest way to build a CMS for a website? I am currently designing a website for a friend. I am designing it in flash and am going to embed it in html using dreamweaver. My friend needs to be able to update the text and the pictures on the pages. I'm not sure how to go about this? Any help or ideas will be much appreciated

 

[LouTheDesigner]

I need to find out about this as well.

 

[suz]

I don't know much about Flash sorry so the only solution I know of is if the content can be edited through an external text file.

 

[artisites]

if you;re designing a flash based site and need a cms, what you're best doing is investigating a way to read in text files by the flash, and have a way to update the ascii files.

for instance, first look up .fla files that read in an external source. the external source could be text files, static html files, php files reading from a mysql database.

then you find a way to update the text files - eg updating database, smarty for html files, etc.

good luck hope this helps.

 

[jnjc]

If you are embedding flash object amongst HTML content then you could just use one of the existing CMS packages. I am pretty sure all the big ones will support flash objects.

If that is overkill there is also a package available wherein once you login as admin to your site it lets you edit the text content in place. I think it's called scribble or something like that. Unfortunately I seem to have killed off the part of my brain that was storing the name of it but maybe someone else reading this thread might remember...