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Has anyone ever given thought or tried to integrate BV with a CMS solution? Something that could take over the content delivery from BV and manage it from another source?
I'm not talking themes and such, just the raw content within pages. |
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In my opinion, a subcontracted web designer is the best CMS solution out there.... lol... |
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Well, of course Matt... hahahah. And honestly, that may be the logical choice too.
I am trying to research the benefits of using something like wordpress/joomla/drupal as the editor and control mechanism for content within BV. Sort of like ASPDotNetStorefront uses DotNetNuke.
Might be a useless dream. |
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hahaha... ASPDotNet"another ecommerce product".... meh. |
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The "other ecommerce" product has a DNN version but has dropped it now. DNN is a completely different architecture from BV and integration could be difficult.
What CMS features are you looking for? In BV you can create custom pages already but I assume you need some other versioning, access, etc?
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Funny timing... One of our clients is an art gallery and is hosting a big national show next year. He emailed this morning asking how to get his current BVC site to display a "right column" with navigation (completely separate from his current categories/artists) that will be specifically tailored for this show with 175-200 artists... I was just replying that his site isn't built for that, but was also trying to find a solution for him. A site he pointed me to was gallery that is hosting this year's show. It's a basic XHTML/HTML site without eCommerce/DB that appears to be using a Wordpress blog to create the artist pages/nav: http://www.legacygallery.com/events/opa/.Anyway... I just searched the forums today in case there were any clues for an elsewhere-hosted blog/cms that we could use for his purposes without monkeying around with his BVC site, but still making it transparent to his visitors. We use DNN and RVSitebuilder for our non eCommerce sites, but DNN definitely overkill and not sure RVSitebuilder is a fit. |
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It's really not that hard to build a content section within the BV websites. A WYSIWYG type of solution it isn't. For developers and designers to maintain.
1. Create a secondary content master page.
2. Create your secondary content pages with corresponding .vb files. This allows you to control specific content, create custom bread crumb trails, meta information, and whatever dohickies you might want to be dynamic.
3. Create some custom columns for navigation via the "Content" section. Assign these columns via the .vb files or master page
Again, this is for a developer/designer that is the key master and gate keeper. |
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