Below are links to most of my sites. Note that if the look similar in
design it is only because I am lazy and made them that way. Any design you
can do in CSS is possible including mobile friendly HTML5.
By navigation I mean the website navigation - in the case of my sites it is
the top navigation to sections of my site and the left sidebar navigation
to pages within the sections. When I create a new page in a section the CMS
automatically puts a link in on the left and I never have to touch it. I
should mention that I can move pages around, or to another section and the
navigation is update automatically.
Another wonderful thing I can do is set a page to turn on (display) on a
certain date and disappear (unpublish) on a certain date. This was
wonderful on a site I used to manage for a cemetery - they had timely
announcements that needed to be up during a specific time frame.
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Timothy Stowell via <
usgenweb-discuss(a)rootsweb.com> wrote:
Linda Lewis,
Do you have an example web site to view that uses this? When you spoke of
navigation what does that reference?
Tim
On Apr 18, 2016 11:56 AM, "Linda Haas Davenport via" <
usgenweb-discuss(a)rootsweb.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation Linda and now I have a quick question for you,
> if
> I may?
>
> My hosting company recently offered me the opportunity to rebuild my
sites
> using a/theirs templates, etc. In checking it out I found it was a CMS
> system. With that said - if I were to rebuild my sites using CMS does the
> coding/templates/whatever belong to me? Meaning if I want to pick up and
> move my sites to a different hosting service it would be as simple as
> moving
> my current html sites?
>
> Thanks
> Linda
>
> Linda Haas Davenport
> my Home Page:
http://www.lhaasdav.com
> My Marion Co AR page:
http://www.argenweb.net/marion/
> my Tulsa OK Page:
http://www.tulsaokhistory.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linda Lewis via
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 7:41 AM
> To: usgenweb-discuss ; JFlorian
> Subject: Re: [USGENWEB-DISCUSS] Fwd: Information on RootsWeb FreePages
>
> Any site that has a lot of pages is a prime candidate for a CMS. A county
> genealogy site may be one of the best examples of good use of a CMS.
>
> Instead of spending an hour hand coding content into an html template
using
> an html editor, one pastes or types content into the site using a form
in 5
> minutes. No hand coding, no ftp.
>
> Using a CMS, one creates a couple of html templates and your style
sheets.
> The CMS uses those templates to display the content and make it look like
> it is individual web pages when it is all usig 1 php file. The content is
> stored in a database. Content is entered and formatted using a quick form
> and content like images, pdfs, are uploaded through an html form. The
CMS
> automatically builds all of your navigation so you dont have to, and it
is
> always correct. CMS are geared heavily toward SEO to get you high search
> ranking.
>
> Wordpress is not a CMS. WP is blog software that a great many people use
to
> create websites It works sort of like a CMS but there are some big
> differences.
>
>
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