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Tailslide -> RE: CMS editors and accessibility (4/17/2008 14:03:20)
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No WordPress is a framework rather than an add-on to an existing site (I think people do use it on existing sites as a blog maybe on a different directory but I tend to use it as a CMS so I use it for the whole site).
You can certainly carve up an existing design into a WordPress site which would then allow clients to add, edit and delete pages. It's not like a Dreamweaver Template sort of thing where you add editable areas into an existing area. Snippetmaster does that - it works ok, I don't love it but don't hate it either.
With WordPress you'd take your existing layout and chop it up into bits (header, footer, sidebar etc) and then WordPress re-assembles it in hopefully the right order with the content that the client has added into the database via the admin panel. The advantage is that as long as the design you're using is nicely coded (preferably CSS) then WordPress doesn't mess with it and will generally produce nice code from it's WYSIWYG editor unlike, say Joomla which still has tables in some places.
WordPress isn't the answer to everything despite the fact that I go on about it a lot - it's really useful for someone like me who likes the whole clean code, CSS thing but still wants to have a simple option when it comes to a CMS for clients. If it was just a single page they wanted to edit (say for a news page) then I'd code it myself using PHP and MySQL - less for the client to learn, less for them to mess up. But if they want to be able to edit the whole site - WordPress is a good solution.
I always thought it was only good for simple CMSs but, I've recently done a site which is horrendously complex in structure and still used WordPress and it's coped fine.
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