New to CMS Builder, and have questions

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Last Post: August 21, 2008   (RSS)

Re: [fbords] New to CMS Builder, and have questions

By InHouse - August 21, 2008

Hi fbords,

Welcome aboard. Your description of CMSB is almost right. However, the part that you copy into your HTML/PHP pages is created for you in the Content Generator. Once you paste this code into your selected page(s) then things will behave as you expected. You will have a backend where you can edit articles, pages, or other types of content and press "Save". As soon as you save the info, it does go live to the site.

The generated code is small and easy to understand. In practice you will probably want to wrap it with styles or other formatting to make it look the way you want.

This is different from framework-based CMS like Mambo/Joomla!, Drupal, and others in that you have the freedom to control the layout and design in a very traditional manner with your chosen tools. I like to think of it as 'atomic level' control where I can pick a single piece of information from the database and put it anywhere at any time. No more 'black box' modules where you have almost no control over what is displayed or where.

As a bonus, CMSB does a very good job of managing your database for you by automatically creating and editing the data tables themselves. Not enough credit is given to this ability - one day I'll write a story about how it made me look like a hero to one major client. ;-)

Give it a try, you may find yourself frustrated by the lack of control that you have in other CMS tools once you wrap your head around this one.

J.

PS: I'm not an Interactive Tools employee, just a fan.