Hi,
I am new to joomla and my boss is asking me to add some of the joomla functionality to the current website so that the owner of the website can itself modify the contents. I am having no idea about how to do that. My boss says that there is no need to re-build the website in joomla. If anybody can help me, I will be highly obliged.
Thanks
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Wow, you have an interesting boss.
I don’t believe you can get “Joomla functionality” without rebuilding it in Joomla. Unless he thinks it will take less time for you to build specific functions using Javascript/flash/Ruby on Rails/PERL/php or some other unknown coding language in your existing website.
This sounds like he has to tell you *specifically* what his wishes/needs are so that you may fulfull him. Then you will need to take each point and show him that rebuilding it in Joomla makes a lot more sense than sticking together a bunch of single solutions.
Good luck!
I agree with 5mj.
Joomla! is code that combines web-based HTML editing with content storage and retrieval (among other things). Of course you could do the same thing in 100 other content management systems too, but you’re still talking about reimplementing the site.
Now if the goal is only to be able to add *new* content and not manage existing content, you could always install a blog, discussion board, wiki, or even Joomla! in a subsidiary directory, and that would not require rebuilding the existing site other than to link to the new content somewhere.
And last but not least, if the only requirement is for the website owner to be able to modify the contents, how about giving them FTP access and letting them use any HTML editor with publish-to-web capability?