Will this sort of website benefit from CMS?

Dreamweaver or CMS?

[mfox]

Dear all,

Having enjoyed creating a nice looking website with html/CSS and dreamweaver (around 20 html pages), I would like to ask about maintaining updating the website.

I have read a bit about CMS such as Joomla etc.

There maybe times that other users (with no Dreamweaver experience) may want to update the content on the webpage - ie employment availability, news etc..

The options would be
1. send me the info and I can update it in DW and ftp to server ( i have total control )
2. teach them to use ftp to download, edit the basic htmls ( ie <h#> and <p> ) while not touching css. (saves me work but not as easy for non-computer people, and risk of creating bad html)
or
3. ?would a CMS make it easier or just more harder. (saves time for me and less risk in them editing?)

I wouldn't expect much updating < no more than once per month by 2 authors.

Thank you
Mfox

[tangor]

With such a low update possibility I'd do it myself. Better security, complete control... YMMV

[mfox]

Thanks - thats what I thought.
Just sounds that these CMS can offer ease of use, but realising that ther precision control wont be there.
Cheers
M

[ergophobe]

Yes, your mileage my vary, but I agree with tangor.

I don't think that a CMS would save you time at all on a site that size with updates that often.

Many reasons, but I'll just throw this out: Imagine you have no content changes for three months, but Joomla comes out with seven security fixes and each one takes an hour out of your day. So you've spent seven hours just to keep your site the same!