Anyone know a good CMS for business directory management?

[ollimpia]

Hi guys, I've been shot down in flames by unhelpful people in other forums - I'm new here so hopefully this one is a bit friendlier!

 

I'm setting up a website that keeps a directory of trustworthy businesses in my town, we've had great success with our Facebook page so thought it was time to set a website up as well.  One of the members of the team manages content but has no knowledge of HTML or CSS, so needs a graphical way to update the "listings" on this site.  Does anyone know of a CMS that is embeddable into an existing HTML/CSS site, allows for the creation of "listings" and has a graphical back end so that edits to content can be made by non-techies?  I know this is probably quite a tall order!

 

Many thanks,

Ollie

[burnttoastnice]

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Haven't heard of anything like this available 'off-the-shelf'. Some solutions might be available if you look around however. If you have some knowledge of PHP or another web-based language you could probably make a basic system using mySQL to hold the information, then use built-in SQL functions to search the database.

[madknight3]

Does the site contain a server side component and are the listings stored anywhere (database, file, etc)?

[omniomi]

Hi guys, I've been shot down in flames by unhelpful people in other forums - I'm new here so hopefully this one is a bit friendlier!

 

I'm setting up a website that keeps a directory of trustworthy businesses in my town, we've had great success with our Facebook page so thought it was time to set a website up as well.  One of the members of the team manages content but has no knowledge of HTML or CSS, so needs a graphical way to update the "listings" on this site.  Does anyone know of a CMS that is embeddable into an existing HTML/CSS site, allows for the creation of "listings" and has a graphical back end so that edits to content can be made by non-techies?  I know this is probably quite a tall order!

 

Many thanks,

Ollie

 

 

Look in to Concrete5. It is ridiculously easy to convert a standard HTML site into a Concrete5 theme: https://www.concrete5.org/documentation/developers/5.7/designing-for-concrete5/building-a-concrete5-theme/converting-an-html-template-to-a-concrete5-theme/

 

There is also an extensive library of available add-ons: https://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons and using one like Block Designer https://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/block-designer/ would allow you to create custom content blocks for your directory listings.

 

Editing is done inline and is 100% WYSIWYG:

 

 

With the custom blocks I mentioned above you can also do guided content editing:

 

 

Over the years I've worked extensively with Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal but I almost exclusively use Concrete5 now because it's just that good.