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CMS for a website

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  • 05-05-2011 10:43am
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    garlad
    Registered Users Posts: 601 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    In the process of designing a website which will be based on Spring MVC.
    A requirement we have is that business users can maintain content. Not necessarily add pages, but edit existing ones.
    We were hoping to be able to use something like Contribute to create html files based on templates. However, some pages will not contain static content (forms, info from 3rd party via web service, etc), and the pages have a navigation structure where there are 3 levels, 2 on top and one to the left. The top items are highlighted to show user what section they are in, and the left navigation will be similar.
    All of these issues are convincing me that contribute will not work, and we will have to use JSP's to import fragments of html, etc.
    While we have used this model in the past, it makes it tricky to allow for users to maintain content in a WYSIWG environment as they are editing chunks of html rather than full html pages.

    Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.


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    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Not sure whether "Spring MVC" will allow it, but if you could separate out the content from the menus and background content, placing in a separate "contribute" folder, and using includes to "pull" that in (parsing out the unwanted "secondary" head content and body tags), then you might be able to achieve what you are talking about.


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    garlad
    Registered Users Posts: 601 ✭✭✭garlad


    Thanks for the reply Liam.
    Was thinking along those lines too.
    Time for a prototype or 2 ;)


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