XWD and CMS

[remi]

@slavelle: How much work and also knowledge is necessary, in order to create a new template, depends more on the used CMS. Typo 3 offers with "Templa Voila" a good mechanism to map parts of your template to the right content elements - graphically with a template editor and very flexible. Therefore I see no big problems with such a task.

@covoxer: Why should a developer reinvent the wheel? Modern CMS and blog systems offers so much functions, you have to reprogramme otherwise (including a WYSIWYG editor, tag clouds, permalinks, multiple (also nested) categories to articles, multiple authors with login mechanism, filters & search for blog articles, trackback and pingback mechanism, and a whole plugin architecture with hundreds of other modules). I mean, if you have so much free time on your hands, then feel free to do it, of course.

Remi

[covoxer]

Why should a developer reinvent the wheel?

I see you are still confused here. The correct question is: "Why would a skilled web designer create this thread?".

[remi]

Hmm, I see you are trying to be funny as usual, John. The correct question is: "Is there a CMS (dynamic Content Management Solution) for XWD that anyone has experience of that integrates into XWD?" (see post #1)

[covoxer]

Hmm, I see you are trying to be funny as usual, John. The correct question is: "Is there a CMS (dynamic Content Management Solution) for XWD that anyone has experience of that integrates into XWD?" (see post #1)

Exactly. The question is not about advantages or disadvantages of any of the web development methods. So your essay is OT and you have to be punished for this.

[remi]

Oh my.

[syntagm]

My thanks to all who contributed. A few lessons from this: (a) Revisit and read the XARA homepage. There are some good readymade solutions in the module store for a variety of needs. (b) use the search site option (which I did not at first) it gave me all the answers. (c) I tried out site updater (could not find the tial option so I bought a months subscription). It works but is rather basic. Would help if you could create passwords for clients independently. (d) Read the replies to your original query - they can be quite funny but mostly helpful.