I have used the full version of wordpress for the stories page in my client project and here is a quick update on how that process has developed…
To give you some background on this, my client wanted a page on the site where they could display the stories of Project Clay participants. They had found the experiences of participants thus far to be fascinating and a page that could be easily up-datable was required so they could aggregate all of the stories from all over the world.
Given the clients complete lack of knowledge of programming a content management system would be required for them to be able to easily update this page. So having expierience with WordPress.org as a blogging system i decided to adapt it and use it as a CMS in this instance.
So what ive basically ended up with is a page that on a normal wordpress installation would act as the blog page, but in this instance its just a collection of stories. In reality its not all that different from a blog page, with the main exception being all the stories will be displayed on one page rather than being archived like a normal blog.
If that doesnt make any sense let me provide some visual reference…
The client would simply log into wordpress and input the story into the admin panel above, a very simple system to use that requires NO programming knowledge at all, perfect!
Then as if by magic… we have a nicely updated page and the client can continue to add as many stories as it likes due to a handy bit of CSS that will repeat the background on each separate post and the page will continue to grow as stories are added. Long term some sort of categorisation would be necessary, this is something that the client could tie in with their desire for an interactive flash application of the projects progress but that’s another story for another post.
So there you have it, its a blog but its not a blog, it uses wordpress and it makes it all very easy for the client to update without getting stressed about code. Tremendous
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