I have a site up and running now. BUt i want to integrate it to a cms so a teacher at a school where i work can edit it or add new ppages or edit text.

Which cms system would be easy to use for the staff?

Ive seeen few but they say to install cms then create web pages...
but ive done my site now looking for cms...

any ideas

WordPress

will that work for the site i have already created?

No You will need to convert your design to a theme .. Doesnt work the other way around

oh seen...welll it would be great if i can work the other way round lol rather than making a theme if possible if not illhave to allow a CMS and just do manual updates

Choosing what CMS to use depends on your needs. Word Press is nice and easy to use and can do a lot of things. But you might also want to try out OpenSourceCMS, where you can play around with a lot of different open source CMSes freely.

If you are looking for a basic CMS that you can install in a web folder and allow your client to change text and images, create new pages and links then I'd suggest the open source package PHPCommander. Of course, you'd need a web server able to run PHP to use this. http://szewo.com/php/commander/

We have taken the basic PHPCommander package and extended it (as it's open source and the creators don't support it anymore) to give more functionality.

This package can simply be installed in a web folder, (htpasswd protected of course!) and allow your client to simply go to his / her website cms by typing www.example.com/cms and edit the website directly without any of this rebuilding of pages sillyness.

This package does have drawbacks though... for example it doesn't support PHP scripting, so if you rely on PHP to control your interactivity, you have to split your pages into PHP headers / footers and then write basic HTML / CSS for your pages and append / prepend the header and footer onto these pages with PHP append / prepend in your .htaccess file.

If you are doing things the old fashioned way and have separate HTML files, all with their own navigation (repeated on every page) then this system is fine 'out of the box'!

Hope this helps!

Originally Posted by checkmate

Ive seeen few but they say to install cms then create web pages...
but ive done my site now looking for cms...

Unfortunately, that's not how (prepackaged) CMSes work.

They are there as a tool to publish your website without having to create the pages. No matter which CMS you choose, they will have their own templating system, and you will have to 1) convert your current design into a compliant template and 2) import your current pages.

That's just the nature of the beast.

The only other option would be to create your own edit section for the teacher. Depending on the resources and features required for the teacher, this can be as simple as a few lines of code, or extremely difficult.

Without seeing the current website and knowing which services are available (i.e. scripting language support, database support, platform, etc), there's really not a whole lot more information people can offer.