mhsimkinHi:
I’m very new to WordPress, and I’m not really a PHP developer, yet.
I’m looking at using WordPress as a CMS, however I have some issues/concerns that I can’t seem to find answers for at this time. I’m looking to port the content of our existing static web site http://www.3333whitehall.com/ .
The users that will be maintaining the site are not very computer literate. I need to make the site extremely simple. My user's don't know HTML/CSS. What they are editing has to act like MS Word.
For example, if you look at this page: http://www.3333whitehall.com/pages/AboutTheWhitehall.html you will see there are several images placed on the page. Asking my users to use the buttons available in the TinyMCE editor to add an image to the page and then get it to be in the correct position will be too much.
I need to be able to give them some sort of template to complete. The template fields themselves should be repeatable. For example, if you look at the above page, I would expect to have a template that contains the following:
- An image picker
- A caption field
- A alt tag field
- Image position (left, center, right)
- Allowed image height and width
- A text editor for the prose
My page template would then be composed of the page’s title, and other meta data fields, and 6 instances of the template.
I would need various templates throughout the site in order for the users to be able to update the content.
I have looked at some of the field plug ins, but the lack of documentation makes it very hard for the novice to get started with the customizations needed.
I'm not opposed to use widgets and page templates/themes, as long as I can find an image widget, a content widget, a file upload widget, a file list widget, a list widget, etc.
I’m open to suggestions; however, please keep the following in mind. This is not my full time job; this is something I volunteered to do in my spare time.
If you are going to suggest professional services or packages, the cost needs to be in the few hundred dollar range.
Thank you for your input.
