Programs for clients to edit websites?

[spwath]

So,

I am designing a website for a client, and they want to be able to edit it of cource, is there a way that they could change info and stuff without going into the code?
IK there are options like dreamweaver, but what would the best one to use be?

[mikat]

so you're coding a website in code (text) and you want them to be able to edit it without seeing the code?

 

wordpress?

[spwath]

Just now, mikat said:

so you're coding a website in code (text) and you want them to be able to edit it without seeing the code?

 

wordpress?

Yeah, I will be making HTML, CSS, ect, but it would be nice for the client to have an easier way to edit it, such as with dreamweaver, WYSIWYG

 

Can wordpress do that?

[mikat]

1 minute ago, spwath said:

Yeah, I will be making HTML, CSS, ect, but it would be nice for the client to have an easier way to edit it, such as with dreamweaver, WYSIWYG

 

Can wordpress do that?

I would assume wordpress can do that because it's easy to build websites with it from what i've heard (my dad built a website with it i think, gonna ask him in a few mins) and they should have an option to put in your own code

[spwath]

Just now, mikat said:

I would assume wordpress can do that because it's easy to build websites with it from what i've heard (my dad built a website with it i think, gonna ask him in a few mins) and they should have an option to put in your own code

IDK, i was just looking quickly, I couldent find an obvious place for code, but it could be there

[mikat]

3 minutes ago, spwath said:

IDK, i was just looking quickly, I couldent find an obvious place for code, but it could be there

I asked my dad and he said that he didn't know if it was possible since he only used the wordpress thing to make the website.

 

this link should help:

https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/page-template-files/page-templates/#Custom_Page_Template

[Alice in game]

Wordpress is easy to edit, but is now WYSIWYG.
It can be used to make a blog or depending on the layout, could look like a webpage. I worked in wordpress and i't easy to add or change content. However, thing like the menu are coded in php, so your customer cannot edit the menu, but only the content of the pages. The advantage is that it's browser edit, using a login page. So the customer cannot mess with the code or the file structure on the server, they can only edit the text and pictures, depending on the layout.

I used it for a school newspaper and anybody with an account could have added an article, or a new issue of the newspaper on Wordpress, but to change the layout or anything out of the template, it require an ftp access, and code (php, html and css) modification.

[spwath]

3 minutes ago, Alice in game said:

Wordpress is easy to edit, but is now WYSIWYG.
It can be used to make a blog or depending on the layout, could look like a webpage. I worked in wordpress and i't easy to add or change content. However, thing like the menu are coded in php, so your customer cannot edit the menu, but only the content of the pages. The advantage is that it's browser edit, using a login page. So the customer cannot mess with the code or the file structure on the server, they can only edit the text and pictures, depending on the layout.

I used it for a school newspaper and anybody with an account could have added an article, or a new issue of the newspaper on Wordpress, but to change the layout or anything out of the template, it require an ftp access, and code (php, html and css) modification.

But for wordpress would I be able to actually code?
And it seems like there may be better options

[Alice in game]

Just now, spwath said:

But for wordpress would I be able to actually code?
And it seems like there may be better options

You code the template, yes. But the core is the Wordpress code. You just adapt how it work.

[spwath]

1 minute ago, Alice in game said:

You code the template, yes. But the core is the Wordpress code. You just adapt how it work.

I would rather not have to deal with other code, ideally I just want to write a code normally, and have the client be able to easily edit it, without having to go into the code

[Alice in game]

13 minutes ago, spwath said:

I would rather not have to deal with other code, ideally I just want to write a code normally, and have the client be able to easily edit it, without having to go into the code

It depend on what is the level of your customer, but they will still have to connect to the files in ftp, find the right file to edit, open it in a WYSIWYG editor (ages ago I tried Dreamweaver). There is still "danger" that the customer or the software mess badly with the page, so you might have to go back and fix the mess. Many things can go wrong. You are stuck in Web 1.0. In this world, nothing is really "easy".

It also depend if you can code a Web 2.0 webpage. The whole idea is to change how content is published on internet, to make it easy to publish content. So, can you code the engine with a user interface to edit the content, like a forum, Facebook, Wikipedia, Blogger... ? I personally cannot, and I think that pre-made application developed by dozen of professional is most likely better than what a single person can do.