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. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson