coin website management

lava · January 23, 2007 1:08PM

For any of you do-it-yourself-ers out there managing your own coin website, what do you use as your content management system?

Anyone use Plone?

Please link your self-managed website for the rest of us to see and tell us what you use for your content management system?

RNCHSN · January 23, 2007 1:11PM

I use Microsoft frontpage.

I just posted a thread about possibly cross-linking all our sites.

lava · January 23, 2007 11:52PM

Anyone else?

dthigpen · January 23, 2007 11:54PM

I use a custom CMS (very simple). Just has a DB table with a key, a section id, a coin id, a description, and a photo URL, an easy PHP backend that allows the uploading of new pictures and classification of them, as well as listing/editing/deleting the current ones. I could have gone a lot more complicated with it and wasted a lot of time with overkill, but I sort of dig simplicity.

lava · January 24, 2007 12:18AM

<< <i>I use a custom CMS (very simple). Just has a DB table with a key, a section id, a coin id, a description, and a photo URL, an easy PHP backend that allows the uploading of new pictures and classification of them, as well as listing/editing/deleting the current ones. I could have gone a lot more complicated with it and wasted a lot of time with overkill, but I sort of dig simplicity. >>

Can you add a link to your site?

dthigpen · January 24, 2007 12:30AM

Here you go. (Just a warning, the site's content is far from complete, it was just a project when I was practicing coin photography in my spare time)

As you can see, it's very simple. Each page just calls an array that spits out all of the records with the defined section ID as well as a baseline header/footer include php include on each page. I suppose I could just go with a single physical page concept and pass a variable via =?sectionid to the end of the url for which section I wanted to spit out, but I try to stay away from doing so due to SEO considerations (not that it is one for this site).

An introduction book covering php & mysql (there are literally hundreds available) should gives you all of the knowledge you need to build such a basic CMS and give you a good understanding of php and mysql in the process (which is a good thing to have).

ricko · January 24, 2007 1:05AM

Crosslinking among boardmembers would be very helpful... and beneficial to all concerned. Please be sure to keep us informed. Cheers, RickO

dthigpen · January 24, 2007 1:18AM

Web Rings are so 1998.

numisma · January 24, 2007 1:59AM

Thigpen, I really like your web site. Cool.

The web site that I am having developed is using MS Access to manage the database. Others have used programming that integrates MS Excel.

dthigpen · January 24, 2007 2:11AM

Thanks Dennis, one of these days I'll actually get around to fleshing it out and putting the bulk of my holed coin collection on there.

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