Form-entry CMS needed

CMS needed for customer that can't use editors

[ToniPerdew]

I want to design simple web sites with about 4 main pages (such as for antique furniture refinishing: Home, Tables, Rocking Chairs, Cabinets, Misc). I'd like for site owners to be able to log on to the site to add photos and text about the individual items...using forms, and not an online WYSIWYG editor. Ouch! That makes it tough.

When Internet viewers look at the web site, we'd like them to be able to go to the correct main page, click an image, and have a page come up with a few photos and some text about the item.

Is ASP the way to go? If so, are there any free/inexpensive programs that could help me set up this form-based input system?

Between the need for a forms-based input (not an editor) and the demand for unique-looking sites (not from templates others have designed), I'm having real trouble figuring out what to do.

Thanks,

Toni

PS I use FrontPage to design, but have some level of comfort with about any editor and can edit HTML a bit too. Low-level user here!

[edited by: tedster at 2:50 am (utc) on Feb. 29, 2008]
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[bill]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld ToniPerdew.

Have you taken a look at the variety of offerings at the OpenSourceCMS.com site? You can try out the various CMS installations on their servers to help you get a feel for how the different packages operate.

[jtara]

Almost EVERY CMS supports this.

But there is a significant learning curve. You will have to learn how to create the forms, in the specific way of the particular CMS, and may need to learn a bit of database design as well.

In some cases, you will have to install a plugin/module/etc. to be able to create forms for content creation.

The most common mistake in assessing CMSs is ignoring the plugins. Often, the greatest functionality is in the plugins, and the main CMS is not much more than a container for plugins, with some basic page-creating capability.