Forum Moderators: phranque
One the problems I see is that when an individual signs up for their own domain, let's say it's www.mynewwebsite.com; now they want to manage the content of the website. Well, since the control panel is on my website, I won't (or will I) be able to manage the content of www.mynewwebsite.com from my domain. Does anyone know *HOW* this is setup? I'm not sure if managing website content across multiple domains is possible.
Any suggestions or ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks
What you're proposing has been done and is available in multiple flavors - some better than others. That's not meant to discourage you but rather to validate the possibility of doing it.
How it is accomplished is another matter. There are two models that I'm aware of and each offers a number of ways to accomplish the goal.
The first deals with dynamically created content published within a template system as a viewer requests different pages. Pages can be added and the scripts build navigation, copy, headers/footers, and links as necessary on the fly.
The second one involves the templates and application being used to generate static pages. The admin/website owner uses the application to build their website much like a newspaper's staff would layout their paper and then when the hit the "publish" button, the whole website (or only the parts that are affected by edits) is built and ftp'd to their webspace. Atomz uses this method and it's quite pricey but very effective.
And yes, editing across different domains/servers/networks is quite possible.
Again, the how is something that has many answers. You'll find what you need to tackle both of these issues here but I doubt anyone has laid out the framework. You'll need to do some digging and piece the puzzle together. :)
macromedia contribute [macromedia.com]
Movable Type [movabletype.org]
Atomz Publish [atomz.com]
Here's a good list/review [cmswatch.com] of several more.
To learn more about how to build you can use your favorite search engine. Search for "content management systems" or CMS for short.
In order to make money on what you build you'll need to have a good understanding of how to build a pseudo ecomm site so you can collect some $$ to use what you build (assuming you do intend to charge for this). And you'll need a way to allow only registered users into their own sections. So you should have (probably already have) knowledge and experience with some scripting language. There are too many pieces to tell you where to get what you need except that you've already found the #1 resource.
I'd suggest you start mapping out what you want to do and then come here to fill in the blanks. Go to g**gle (example [google.com]) and use the advanced search to search WebmasterWorld for what you're after. If you still can't find it - post and you're likely to get an answer quickly.
