ianbarrow

Date: 17 July 2012

Maker CMS Client

A striped down version of the maker that only edits .content files for subsequent building and publishing

In this version the maker would connect to site address and down load a copy of the HTML, it would then slice into ints constituent parts:

head
body
nav
content
foot

Only the .content file would be visible in the maker Gui everthing else would be hidden (to avoid editing)

So the user could point the maker at a site and import , then edit the content (preview unit happy) then publish.

This would be very useful for blogging etc. or when you wanted to produce a site for a client but only have them edit the content

The intention here would be to produce a version of the maker that would be suitable for end users to use without having knowledge of the parts of the web page and also without HTML and CSS skills, ie just to provide them with an interface so that they could modify the content of existing pages.

The maker client would be preloaded with a setup file.
The maker client would be preloaded with a reduced copy of the distribution table. (ie only the files to be changeable) Or a client 'mandate' file on the site would contain the files to be modified (this would enable other files to be added in the future by the supplier as the 'mandate' file could be updated with a normal copy of the maker.)
The maker client would then down load the files listed and create the maker parts files for them
All parts file except the .content file would be hidden from view.
The user could then edit this (these) file(s) and upload to the site as normal.
The editor may need some rich text functions so that the customer is using like a word processor.
All other functions like add new file or import would be disabled.
The ability to upload and sync images would remain.
The maker client, setup and dist files could be sent to the customer as a single binary or zip file.
This would work with any site without the need to know the PHP version or worry about databases.

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