Hi all, I'm new to this forum and have a question. I've been doing "garden variety" websites for a year or so now with Dreamweaver and Photoshop and was recently asked to create a site where the client can go in and add and remove content (product info text and images) themselves on a regular basis. At the risk of you all rolling your eyes, what would be the simplest way for me to achieve this and what CMS would you recommend. I'm a bit of a thicky and have avoided looking at them until now and realise I will have to make that step. Anyway if anyone can give me some pointers I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks

What operating system ?
What programming languages are you familar ?
Whats your CSS level at ?

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If you're hosting on linux there are plenty of CMS to choose from. The main thing is customising the layout so that it doesn't look to much like "every other $cms powered site"

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what modules/features would you like the website to have also?

There are so many CMS out there, but they're all specialised to suit a particular specification/user.

if you buy hosting, please make sure it has php/mysql at least, and a good bit of space.

Most CMS store the data in the database, so you don't need insane amounts of space most of the time

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Hi! I'm on Windows, I'm fairly well versed in CSS but haven't a clue when it comes to programming, is there hope?

Oh I use one.com for my hosting, if that helps. Basically a fellow wants a site that sells motorbikes done and he wants it done so that he can go in and delete and update motorbikes himself after I've designed it for him.

so you're actually talking about an ecommerce site ?

Products / Price / Shopping carts / integration with payment system ?

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Hi again, I don't think it will be a full blown commerce site, just pictures of bikes and with price and description text.

check out modata.ie - €90. Good customer service, but for 8mb hosting, and php, it's brutal. (mysql costs extra, and if you did get it, the space you used in there counted towards your 8mb limit). Personally, i hated that project that i had to suffer without breathing space or a database even.

one.com appears to have all you need to get going.

as for the site, will he intending on having a system that will allow visitors to log in while browsing the site, or does he want just a 'static' website as such?