james88

Hi,

Sorry all if this is a stupid question, but I love to create websites in Dreamweaver and am after a CMS that can then update text within the site. I have hunted high and low for an answer on the web, even tried to install Mambo to do the following task (but it failed).. but.
Can I get mambo to update an EXISTING website

I have tried all day to get it working on www.blueskysolutions.co.uk, I get Mambo installed but I can't update this site with it.

do I have to convert the HTML to some sort of Mambo format before Mambo can edit it or what?

Please help, this is driving me craay

ApSpecialists

Dreamweaver is an editor/designer for web pages and you can use DMX to help build a Mambo template, but isn't meant to handle content in an open source CMS (dynamic) environment - so the short answer is no, Mambo isn't "connectable" in that way. (Yes, I know that DMX is capable of more, but...).

Mambo, like most CMS solutions I'm aware of, are frameworks that you apply your "style" to, and create and manage your content within the framework.

Think of a CMS like a house under construction, with the 2x4 stud walls up but no rooms are sectioned off... no paint, no landscaping. After the frame is up, you go in and make it your own by doing your own plumbing, electrical, etc. (components, modules, mambots) - then put up your own walls, and decorate it to suit your own taste with a template.

There are solutions that do what you're looking for, but they're costly and proprietary... GoLive, ColdFusion, etc.

However....! You CAN create a template just like your present site's design, and re-use your content within Mambo. It may be more copy/paste, than point and plug in - but you will ultimately have a near duplicate of what you have, that can be managed and edited in a CMS context. No more page by page editing.

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james88

Thankyou for you reply. Surely there are open source php/mysql solutions that will edit existing webpages - or perhaps I should write one? Can you suggest any?

ApSpecialists

If what you're looking for is a way to maintain a single web page - not design new ones, just maintain what you already have... Then you can adapt a number of online editors. HTMLArea, FCKEditor, TinyMCE, etc. They all started as standalone editors - and still are. If you want a commercial product, there's WYSIWYG Pro and a few others. Google will help to find those and any other's I've forgotten. Try Hotscripts.com for more too.

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KriKit

Mambo is a content management system. I would simply do what ApSpecialists suggest's. Convert your site's template to be Mambo happy. Copy and paste your websites content into Mambo (there's no "format" it can accept html. and the default text editor does a good job of simply copy and pasting)

Of course there are many steps in between but once you grasp Mambo it is the solution. There are plenty of site's with documentation to help you along the way.

You can do this backwards too. Start converting the content over while you work on converting the template. Makes for a good all nighter (just don't forget the Mr. Pibb and cheeto's)

Troubadour

To answer your actual question tho, there are a couple of solutions out there that do what you want. I don't know of any open source products tho. ICMS is a fairly low-end solution that will do what you ask.

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