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Originally Posted by alexmel7
Hey everyone, I have a site I've already built and I want to install a nice free cms system so someone else can manage the site easily (pretty much just editing content). I tried installing Joomla, but I don't see a way to easily recreate or import my already existing pages. Any good, free cms systems out there for this?
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You always have to do some (more or less) minor modifications in your code because you need to change your pages from static HTML to dynamic content management. I can recommend
CMS Made Simple where you just have to copy and paste your template HTML and replace a few snippets with Smarty tags to indicate where the content goes (i. e. where one can change the content).
For example if you currently have a static page looking ike this:
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>here goes the website title</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="description" content="blabla" />
<meta name="keywords" content="text here" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header">this is the header code</div>
<hr />
<div id="content">here comes the content</div>
<hr />
<div id="footer">and footer is here</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
If you want to make your content editable remove the static code you currently have and replace it with the respective Smarty tag:
Code:
<div id="content">here comes the content</div>
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<div id="content">{content}</div>
Then if you create a new page whatever you put into the editor will appear in that spot where you put the Smarty tag.
This is just the most basic way, there are a few more thing you can (but don’t have to) change to make them dynamic and editable from the CMS admin area.
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