cushy cms

[petner]

This might be out of left field for this thread, but I'm desperate for some CMS help and because of my inexperience on IT side, it's mind numbing

I’m looking for some help in solving a dilemma I’m having in creating a custom CMS for my website that was created in WD6…actually I’m approaching the desperate stage of solving this problem.

Some background: I have few technical/IT skills but I created my website, www.the247newsroom.com with WD6 and I’m pleased with the site’s overall look. WD6 is a terrific program and especially good for a pure content person like myself. It’s hard to beat the WYSIWYG approach. Most of the pages on my site are relatively static. So when I have changes to make changes in a few sections, I can easily make the changes and upload the edited page without a hassle.

But here’s the problem:
I have a section called: “Media News At This Hour.” In this section I want the content to be dynamic. For example, in the early morning I post detailed content about changes, development and personnel shifts in the broadcast news industry. That’s fine and easy to do, but the problem comes when I want to update at several other points throughout the day…pasting in fresh content as it develops during the day.

Obviously it also becomes a potential nightmare trying to archive all this content.

I’d like my users to be able to call-up that content at some later time…in effect creating a CMS system so people can retrieve that story.
I’ve had a ton of suggested solutions of how to do it in WD6…some of which are from these boards

People have suggested that I convert the entire website to WordPress…which of course takes me away from WD6…and costs me time and ultimately money.

Some have suggested that I have a CMS system built in WordPress and then tie it into that “News At This Hour” using I-frames…another has suggested some sort of Feedburner configuration and tie it in. Another suggestion is to use Google docs but one moderator, Steve Ledger, didn’t think that would work for me. I think Steve is right. The Iframes look clunky and I can’t seem to master creating the CMS in Wordpress.

Realizing my limitation I decided to reach out for some professional help.
So, after going around and around, I solicited freelance help online at freelance.com and bid the work out, ultimately winding up with a person thousands of miles away. Unfortunately there have been some communication barriers in getting this right. Clearly the person didn’t understand the program and template environment of WD6.

Actually this morning we mutually agreed to cancel the project…the Xara software is something that he’s not familiar with and was suggesting a total rebuild of my site.
So here I am, stuck a
nd trying to figure out what to do next. The technical issues are beyond me. Can anyone direct me to a person, place or solution?
Although my IT skills are limited I’ve found solutions to my WD6 issues, but I can’t seem to get my head or skills around the CMS issue.
My site is up and almost ready to go – http://www.the247newsroom.com but this cms/archive problem is a mind-numbing mystery for me.

I’d like to stick with WD without have the whole site having to be rebuilt in Wordpress.

[petner]

It does help and thank you. Let me check out your site and see the specifics. You probably are much tougher in evaluating it, but do you find the differences considerable -visibile to the routine user? Is it costly to convert the site over to WordPress. At this point, after so much work on Design 6, it breaks my heart to have to go back and think about doing the whole thing in WordPress...I'm not sure I have the energy. But the I-frames look chunky and not quite right.
If you get a chance, I would value any input on my site:
http://www.the247newsroom.com
Thanks again

[ss-kalm]

Slavelle,

Your trunorthadvisors.com link gives me this message in Opera, perhaps you'd like to investigate what's going on ...

[slavelle]

ugh...hacked - Godaddy hosting - no idea why yet...replacing files.

Dont go here until I update this post that it has been fixed.

[slavelle]

Good to have backups.

I have reloaded the files that seem to have been affected by this. I think it's ok again - just brosed to it, didn't get redirected or anything unusual.

ss-kalm - do you still get the warning?

[ss-kalm]

Yes I do! - Even clearing all the caches, It still comes up. Try it yourself in an Opera browser.

[steve.ledger]

I see the same warning in Opera as well.
Scott, just reloading your site from backups won't get your off the Yandex fraud list (Used by Opera for the Blacklistings).
Read more here:
► http://www.opera.com/docs/fraudprotection/

You will also need to contact godaddy as your site still appears to be compromised.

When attempting to load your URL in Google Chrome, I see a remote call being made to a Russian site.