[Hidden-tech] Wanted: website assistance for small-business client

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 8 Jul 2014 08:50:08 -0400 Richard Danek <rcdanek at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Why a CMS system?
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> If you are planning on implementing a blog-like experience (where there are
> many updates and, over time, you can give people the option to search and
> display posts in meaningful ways, the CMS is wonderful.
> 
> If you simply want to take over control of your site (because someone else
> is doing this for you and it's no longer convenient having them do it, then
> something like a WYSIWG editor may be far easier. (The free SeaMonkey is my
> favorite for this kind of thing.)

One major issue with WYSIWG HTML editors is that HTML *by defination* is NOT 
WYSIWG.  Often what happens is that a a page looks great in your WYSIWG editor 
and maybe the corresponding web browser, but then looks horrible (or at least 
different) with a different web browser.  While there are ways to deal with 
this with static HTML/CSS, it generally is not easy.  Most modern CMS systems 
(like WordPress) have been engineered to deal with these issues.  With the 
wide number of web browsing devices in use, from desktops, to laptops, to 
notebooks/netbooks, to tablets, to smartphones, in can be hard to cover all 
bases well.

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> Trying to convert your existing look and feel to a CMS system can sometimes
> be a real pain. Finding an existing theme? ...easier, with minimal tweaking
> to get it to do what you want.it to do. What's really nice about canned
> themes is that you can change them over time to freshen up your site.
> Trying to do something like that, keeping your old style? ...not so much.
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> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
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> >    ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
> >    ** If you did, we all thank you.
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> > > My website www.zanekotker.com was made half a dozen years ago and does
> > not
> > > have a content management system. I´d like to transfer everything in my
> > > current site to a Wordpress or similar system that I could manage and
> > update
> > > myself. I´m curious has to how much I should expect to pay for the
> > transfer
> > > and for the instruction in updating. Thanks for any information you can
> > give
> > > me.
> > > I'd also love it if I could keep the same design and not change into
> > > Wordpress Themes but I gather this isn't possible. Correct?
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