We are redesigning our corporate website with the following functions:
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we want to give the marketing users flexibility and freedom to add new static pages, change the static pages or contents of static pages without the developer(s)/deployment team getting involved.
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we want developers to work on the dynamic portion of the website.
How to architect the website to make sure that the layout/look and feel of the website stays same across all the pages and achieve the above mentioned work?
Any experience? Suggestions?
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Step 1) Research the content management systems out in the world, as Mickey Sly says.
Step 2) Select one that nearly fits. Implement it as a trial. Present it as a prototype to a pilot team. Re-implement a couple of times.
Step 3) Decide if you need to implement your own CMS. I would be willing to bet a dollar that you don’t.
By all means, DO NOT implement a CMS before you have experience with successful implementations. There are far too many poor implementations in the world because the developers didn’t understand security, maintainability, flexibility or user experience.
Well, it sounds like you’re looking for a Content Management System or CMS. There are dozens of free ones out there on the internet that are pretty easy to setup and use. Although, it seems like you’re talking about building this CMS yourself. My suggestion would be to look at some open source CMSs on Google and after you’ve browsed through a few you can take what you like and don’t like from each and build your own.
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