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Masterpage in more projects

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 11:29 am
by megabuik
My customers would like to add text and photo themselves in the websites that I make.
The CMS funtion is to limited.
Now I was thinking, that I am installing a WYSIWYG webbuilder at the customers desktop,
so they can make a webpage. (gif them only one page in they local project)
They can upload it, to his own website. And yes, i sell a licence of WYSIWYG webbuilder to the customers.

Masterpage:
But I can only set the masterpage in the local project.
Is it possible that I can use a url of the masterpage and set it to the masterpage on the server?
The customers are now unable to change his header en footer.

Re: Masterpage in more projects

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:15 pm
by Pablo
Is it possible that I can use a url of the masterpage and set it to the masterpage on the server?
Sorry, that is not possible. A master page only exists during design time, because this is not standard HTML functionality. so it cannot be published or used separately.

Re: Masterpage in more projects

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 2:54 am
by onlye
I purchased a php script, Simple CMS, to do something similar. I have been experimenting for a couple of weeks. I have shown a couple of customers that wanted some limited ability to make changes to some text and images on their website and they liked it. So far it seems to work ok. You create an html placeholder on whatever page you want to allow edits in WWB. In the Simple CMS, you create Sections. Sections are linked to the placeholders. Take the code from the Simple CMS Section and paste it in the WWB placeholder and you have it. Your customer can login to the Simple CMS dashboard online and make changes that are immediately reflected in their website.

You can use the demo dashboard on the PHPJappers site to make a couple of sections and then make a quick page with WWB to test it out. I had a quick test using their demo in about 10 minutes. If you like it buy the developer license. You get a bit of support but mainly the license to use the script in multiply customer websites. The install on my servers took less than 30 minutes, including the time to set up the Mysql database and credentials.

https://www.phpjabbers.com/simple-cms/

Re: Masterpage in more projects

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 8:36 pm
by megabuik
#onlye

Thank you for your recommendation. I'm going to watch it.