So far away

[MEB]

To supply a customer with a copy of WD6 in order to edit their areas is hardly going to break the bank and will have a minimal learning curve if they are just altering a bit of text or adding a graphic.

Yes, the learning curve is in fact so minimal that the customer may decide to take care of all the site himself from that point on...
Bye bye customer...

But it´s a good idea if Xara developed a very simplified software we can buy/distribute to customers that allow them to only change text and swap photos from a design previous developed by us in Xara Web Designer or Xara Designer PRO.
This software would use the same XAR file but only those bits would be editable. So there´s no need for other tools in the interface. Only the selector tool, the text tool and that´s it.

[steve.ledger]

Yes, the learning curve is in fact so minimal that the customer may decide to take care of all the site himself from that point on...
Bye bye customer...

Exactly..!

[Nostaw]

Uhm WD6 is IMO not a CMS, websites are still static.

Most CMS contain in it's basic version out of the box: admin access levels, client login areas, local date/time, increase/decrease font size, convert article to PDF and sent to email, rss feeds, website search, article tags, breadcrumbs (trail in navigation aid), mobile formatting, update/change/remove/add content from anywhere anytime, automatic update notification to clients and/or social networks, sitemap.

Any website would benefit by having these features.

The beauty of a CMS is it does it by itself once it has been set up, including Web Access Guidelines (http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCON...full-checklist)

You'll lose any customer supplying them with WD6, once they start editing content they will take the next level, get Designer and take it all apart think they can do it all themself and it starts to look like a mess - but they don't care and don't see it.

[steve.ledger]

Just a reminder that this is not the Talk Web section of the forums.
Best to take further web related discussion to the forum designed for the purpose.

[w00dy]

Needs checking BUT you can't edit those locked objects in WD6 when I tried it... so any update that requires update of locked objects is down to the owner of Designer 6.