web CMS query
Just emerging briefly because I need some web-savvy advice.
This winter I redesigned an old client's website, (at howardbarash.com), but it's just bare bones, flat HTML/CSS. It's been ages since I've done any serious web work, so I kept it as simple as possible (luckily minimalism works well for photography portfolios!), and the client is largely very happy with the general layout.
The major part of the project that I haven't tackled yet (besides figuring out why my CSS is still a little bit buggy) is implementing some sort of (VERY SIMPLE!) content management system so that he can upload new artwork himself without having to enlist me each time. (And it would be nice not to have to edit flat HTML pages as though it were 1996 even if it IS me who's updating the site!) And I'm so out of the loop with this stuff that I'm not sure where to start looking.
This is pretty much what we want to be able to do from the back end:
- Upload art into designated category page (aka "new work" "past work" or "commercial work")
- Include a space to enter caption information with that artwork
- Allow moving old posts from one category to another (so that something can be moved from "new work" to "past work")
- Keep a simple database list of each post
No comments, no widgets or modules, no bloggy paraphernalia. (Or I'd just be looking at adapting Wordpress...) My client is not very computer savvy so it would be nice to find something that's clean and simple to use, without a lot of extra, distracting features. Though I don't know, maybe adapting Wordpress, or Textpattern, IS still the best plan?
Would hugely appreciate any advice! Thank you guys!
This winter I redesigned an old client's website, (at howardbarash.com), but it's just bare bones, flat HTML/CSS. It's been ages since I've done any serious web work, so I kept it as simple as possible (luckily minimalism works well for photography portfolios!), and the client is largely very happy with the general layout.
The major part of the project that I haven't tackled yet (besides figuring out why my CSS is still a little bit buggy) is implementing some sort of (VERY SIMPLE!) content management system so that he can upload new artwork himself without having to enlist me each time. (And it would be nice not to have to edit flat HTML pages as though it were 1996 even if it IS me who's updating the site!) And I'm so out of the loop with this stuff that I'm not sure where to start looking.
This is pretty much what we want to be able to do from the back end:
- Upload art into designated category page (aka "new work" "past work" or "commercial work")
- Include a space to enter caption information with that artwork
- Allow moving old posts from one category to another (so that something can be moved from "new work" to "past work")
- Keep a simple database list of each post
No comments, no widgets or modules, no bloggy paraphernalia. (Or I'd just be looking at adapting Wordpress...) My client is not very computer savvy so it would be nice to find something that's clean and simple to use, without a lot of extra, distracting features. Though I don't know, maybe adapting Wordpress, or Textpattern, IS still the best plan?
Would hugely appreciate any advice! Thank you guys!