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I realise that this question may get downvoted, but I'll try to outline my needs as clearly as possible.
Basically I've been looking at Perch, a very simple CMS that can be added in at the end of a website design. For me, its core benefits are its ease of use - simply adding a line of code for areas where content may change. It also has a very simple admin area.
I've looked at concrete5 and that doesn't seem to be as simple.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a simple CMS? I am fundamentally a Web designer, not developer, and am looking for something as quick to set up as Perch, but free.
By simple CMS I mean simple to install and easy for someone with no technical knowledge to understand on the admin side. Also simple in its implementation.
The sites are simple, with maybe a blogging functionality but other than that there is only a need to edit text and images.
Thanks in advance!
If you are looking for a free alternative to perch, I think you should look at couchcms. It is quite similar to perch but is open source.
I'd recommend AnchorCMS.com, its simple, dead easy to use and open source (Anchor - Github).
You didn't mention any specific site needs and that would be a factor in determining the best CMS solution. However, based on what you stated, I would suggest looking at Wordpress. It has a lot of functionality and can be extended to accommodate the needs of most websites. It is very simple to learn and there is a vast community of users/developers who can help get you up to speed with using Wordpress. In my opinion, Wordpress is the best choice for someone wanting/needing to learn CMS development. Later, you may want to move to Joomla or Drupal.
Define "simple"? Small code base? Easy to administer? Doesn't require a bunch of extensions?
My 3 standards are WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal, ordered by increasing complexity of the site's needs. I can have a very nice site put together in a few hours with any of them after some experience. There's no such thing as a CMS without a learning curve.
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Are there similar tools that works like Softwell Maker?
Softwell maker:
The Softwell Maker is an environment for developing corporate Rich Internet Application (HTML + CSS + AJAX). The focus of this tool is high productivity in software development, better interaction between the developers and their customers in the development process, and a technological independence of the developed application. Using this software it is possible to develop web applications on a 100% visual approach, without writing lines of code. To realize this, Softwell Maker designer uses visual forms and reports (WYSIWYG), business rules, and visually representing other actions using flowcharts.
Probably will not attend all demand, but I would like keep in mind for soon use.
Looks like what you want is Adobe Bridge or Adobe Edge.
I'm not sure about the AJAX capabilities, but it does allow to make cool stuff.
In the end it will be a bad idea. Everything what comes out of a "visual wonder creator" will be in the end nothing more than a amateur app.
If you want to create a professional app, you can perhaps use the visual creator for some basic elements.
But in my opinion you forget at best completely the visual part of the ide an make it completely by hand. Only then you can be sure that you exactly get what you need and want.
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I would like to generate a list of all the web pages in my website (contains 500 pages and more) which link to an external website.
Before I start trying to code this one, I would like to know if something ready made exists so I don't go into all the hassle for nothing.
If you know of any, or have used any, please share.
Thanks
For link checking, I use Xenu's Link Sleuth.
The W3C link checker will give you a list of all the links and tell you which ones are working. It should be pretty trivial to scrap the output to show only external links.
Have you considered using a website sniffer ? There's a lot of free tools that can explore your website and list your pages.
Hope this helps :)
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Eventually, the easiest way was with an SQL Query in the database, so make sure you check if it is do able when you have a similar problem, via SQL before trying to find external programs.
Thanks to everyone for suggestions.
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I'm a system programming geek. My drawing and design skills are very limited and I barely know how to use Photoshop.
Currently, web development software only offers separate options for coders (non-visual) and designers (visual). But I'm trying to find a WYSIWYG (visual) website design piece of software optimized for engineers, rather than artists.
Something like drag & drop building blocks, select various layouts, options. Add graphics.
Don't get me wrong - it must not be a primitive template-based editor - I'm looking for advanced solution, so I can make a professional website.
I dont think you will find a "golden bullet" here.
That being said I consider myself in a similar vein. I'm a pretty competent front end developer with minimal design skills. Although kind of template based, Artisteer is worth a look. I use it to get me started then I tweak from there. Being an ASP.net guy Visual Studio is my normal poison for tweaking. Visual Studio Express is a free version. Though Dreamweaver etc would also work.
If you are getting serious about this, you make sure you have the basics of HTML and CSS covered so you know what you are doing when you are tweaking templates.
you best option is what most of us nerds do and thats hire a designer, or go to something like template monster thing is with design, it is a creative mind... when it comes to programming it is logical mind. Fair enough there are a few good designers out there that can make a website, code etc but to what level. I just right code, its what i am good at, my pal brian creates designes for me.... because thats what he is good at.
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I am starting my work to develop an intranet reporting website in php and html. I wanted to know if there are any templates for page layout, so that i can quickly select the look of the page and then start all my coding for the reporting system. i would really appreciate if anyone could help me with few links.
ofcourse, i am looking for free templates only, because i am using it only for page layout. not willing to pay for this. Else if there is already a free reporting website which can be changed according to my needs then I would appreciate that. Thanks :)
I've used this with success: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/layout/
It's not a full-blown layout like you might expect, but it overcomes a common design pattern flaw that causes HTML and CSS to overrun the screen when some sort of vertical menu is put on the left side. Resizing is a great plus, and the CSS reset makes IE flaws virtually a thing of the past.
Here's a semi-ugly example of what it can do: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/layout/adv_layout_source.html
Related to this, I can't say enough about Jquery Datatables (http://datatables.net/) for the functionality it brings to plain tabular data such as sorting, filtering, paging, show/hide detail, etc. My company's report site immediately moved to a new level thanks to datatables and themeroller.
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Do any of you know of a website which lists open source projects which are in need of help?
Let me elaborate, I would like to work on another open source project (I already work on a couple), however, it would be nice to have a site which lists lots of OS projects, their aims, deadlines, workload, how many more developers they are in need of etc.
Of course, I could just pick a topic I'm interested in, find an OS project and then work on it. However, it would be nice to see a diversified list of projects, primarily because some little known awesome projects get little attention and big projects such as jQuery forks, adium, gimp etc. etc. get a lot of attention because they are well known (and of course because they are great) and thus get a lot of developers working on them.
It would be nice to see some little known projects getting more attention and thus hopefully drawing some people to work on them.
Currently there are many websites hosting open source projects, such as github, sourceforge, google code etc. A website to centralise all of this into one place and categorise it would be awesome.
This is somewhat related:
http://issuetriage.herokuapp.com
Get an email for projects with open issues on github.
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There is no single central depository of open source projects that need help. And probably never will be due to the size and diversity of developers.
But if you are looking for a project to work on, that would be a good question to ask.
Is'nt OHLOH doing something similar?
There is openhatch.org, it scans bug trackers to finds things to do.