Re: Content Management System versus Static (Dreamweaver)

Subject: Re: Content Management System versus Static (Dreamweaver)
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:40:37 -0400

Al Geist wrote:

Tracey Austin wrote:

We are currently using a CMS (Joomla) for our non-for-profit company
website (public health). We find the CMS to time consuming and not
reliable. Our .css continually gets dumped and simply posting a .pdf is
very time consuming. We are thinking about switching to Dreamweaver (we
currently use Adobe CS2 and RoboHelp for all else) but have been
cautioned against a static content site. Our site will have appx. 300
htm files and 100 pdf. Is Dreamweaver a wise choice? (Personally, I'd
like to roll the whole thing into a RoboHelp webhelp file!)


I used DreamWeaver MX for sites ranging up to 2000 HTML pages and hundreds of PDF user guides, data sheets, etc. without any problem with either .css or content updates. Getting/Putting files using DreamWeaver's built in FTP is also a snap.

Al



Aside from Dreamweaver being a robust tool, as Al says, there is also nothing about it that constrains you to a static site. You can build a fully dynamic site in Dreamweaver.

Keep track of all your content in a database on the site server or a separate database server. Give users an upload widget to upload files to the web server or separate fileserver. And use Dreamweaver to build dynamic pages that display metadata about the content files, allow searching, sorting, annotating, and retrieving the files and that track user actions as needed (to know who has downloaded controlled documents, for example).

All of this is relatively straightforward. I built an intranet site that did all of that and allowed people to construct new pages to add to the site (using a template I built), with maybe a week's effort altogether.

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References:
Content Management System versus Static (Dreamweaver): From: Tracey Austin
Re: Content Management System versus Static (Dreamweaver): From: Al Geist

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