On Monday 29 January 2007 3:23 am, cl@isbd.net wrote:
No, it's nearest to the *result* of designing an Access form, I want to create my site with something like the forms design in Access.
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I think what I'm after is a more integrated system where the HTML entry is part of a single web-site creation utility. This is *very* difficult in a browser because of the limitations of the web protocols.
Take the browser/on-line requirement away and it becomes easier, what I'm after is a 'better NVU' if you like, an NVU which gives you more control over the site as a whole as well as the individual pages.
Perhaps you can give a better example of what sort of content your users will be adding? That would make it easier to recommend something to you (Drupal or otherwise).
I want to design a web site! :-)
By that I mean I want a tool that will make it easy for me (and one other person probably) to create from scratch a small, static but professional looking web site.
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Most CMS systems seem to be aimed at the situation where the creation of the site framework and structure is a sort of 'sysop' role and much of the content comes from lots of 'outsiders' (which may of course include the 'sysop' with a different hat on). This isn't where I am, there will be one, or two, or three people involved and they will all be doing a spread of tasks across the system.
You're right, you don't want a web-based CMS. You want Macromedia Dreamweaver. :-) I'm pretty sure with a little investigation of its feature set it would do what you want. Of course, if the site isn't that big than I don't know why NVU wouldn't be sufficient, but DW does offer things like master pages and templates, I believe.