Admin Pages

What to do with them?

[Mr_Brutal]

Hello,

I've just started a project for a client and its seems really simple. I can create all the content pages they want which is fine. However to make it easy for them to maintain i'm going to add some administration pages that allow them to edit details and upload images etc. I was wondering what the standard procedure was for this.

Do i place an admin link or login box on the homepage so that all users can see it but only the client can access the pages. Or is it better to not link to them at all and just give the client the exact url to a login page which then presents them with the admin pages. I guess the admin pages don't need to be in a search engine and i just wondered what other people did?

Thanks

Mr_Brutal

[henry0]

Unless the users are also allowed to edit you do not need to make it visible
if the users are allowed to edit then you need to add a full blown authentication process

now the one CMS for the admin person needs also protection
so be sure to PW protect it

regards

Henry

[TheDoctor]

Create a folder called admin and put the admin pages into there, with no links to them. Password protect the folder using .htaccess

In your robots.txt, put:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/

This will keep the admin pages out of the search results.