Web Content Management System

Okay...so I'm in a bit of a situation.

You see I'm building a new site for a client and well...he wants a web content management system available through the site IE you logon as an admin and go to the admin panel you get choices like "edit users" "Webpage admin" "webpage properties" etc...

WELL I know nothing of that stuff. I have a design already made: dev.hospitalitylawyer.com and so far it seems that all the CMS software doesn't allow you to use your own designs.

Does ANYONE know of a big step by step tutorial for creating one or is anyone willing to build one for me (OF COURSE YOU"LL BE PAID)?

If you can find a tutorial or some kind of beginning guide that'd be better lol but I would be willing to hire someone as a subcontract.

Do the other users of site also log in? If not, then it is far better to have two sites one for the internet user and one for administration. It is unwise (in my opinion) to mix internet and extranet access.

If the site is purely extranet (all users must authenticate by username and password), then avoid an admin user but instead have either IsAdmin as an attribute or a user status value on the user table.

I have designed several CMS backed web sites (e.g.http://www.preferredmortgages.com/) and could write one for you. However my email access at the moment is only at weekends.

Which version of ASP.NET are you developing in? Are you going to use SQL Server and backend database? Which version?

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Do the other users of site also log in? If not, then it is far better to have two sites one for the internet user and one for administration. It is unwise (in my opinion) to mix internet and extranet access.

If the site is purely extranet (all users must authenticate by username and password), then avoid an admin user but instead have either IsAdmin as an attribute or a user status value on the user table.

I have designed several CMS backed web sites (e.g.http://www.preferredmortgages.com/) and could write one for you. However my email access at the moment is only at weekends.

Which version of ASP.NET are you developing in? Are you going to use SQL Server and backend database? Which version?

The current website that I want to base my building off of runs on a member system. You join (by paying money) and register. This gives you the ability to view certain pages that are not viewable by non members. There are of course admin as well and you login just the same way as a member would. However, of course, when an admin logs on you get the ability to view the admin panel. I'm going to show you screenshots.

so this is what you see when you login in as an admin see you have the choice to edit the page you are on, your personal info, add a new page or go to your admin tools page which list all your other abillities.

And this is the list of abilities an admin has. We can upload files, edit listings on the website, check our store and add items to the store, address permissions and add webpages etc...

This is one of the more important features...the ability to add or edit webpages.

I actually have the code for all of this. For the entire CMS. BUT I dont' know how to get it work with my layout I have designed and I don't know how to change the PageID from a number to a word (you can't see it there but it is always a number assigned such as wwww.blahblahblah.com/blah blah PageID=330 instead of something better like www.blahblahblah.com/conference.asp)

If I could figure out a way to get it to work with my layout and also figure out how to get it to use words instead of number variables when creating new websites I would be good.

Our server is SQL 2000 and I'm not sure about the .net version. Also all the information for the CMS has been also added to our new database so I'd really like to just be able to fix the current cms to fit our new site. *sigh*

Dear WhiteClaw48

Rather than ask which version of ASP.NET, which version of Visual Studio are you using?

As you need a mixed access system, you willl need to subdivide the pages into

1) NonMember

2) Logon

3) Member

4) Admin

If using ASP.NET 2.0/VS2005 then each section will have their own Master page with a dedicated menu control.

If using ASP.NET1.1/VS2003 then some common boliler plate code will need to be copied across forms in 2, 3, 4

Dear WhiteClaw48

Have a look at http://www.fckeditor.net/ this is a component that will assist your building your own CMS.

I have built several. I look forward to to an answer to my questions of 15 Feb 2007 12:29 PM: