[thelist] 100% editable CMS?

[Shawn K. Quinn]

On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 11:26 +0100, Simon MacDonald wrote:
> I have a potential customer who wants to be able to edit 100% of his
> web-site including any themes/colour schemes and branding. He is used to
> using MS Publisher which will allows him to edit pages and generate html
> pages (horrible, horrible html/css) 
> 
> I use WordPress to build sites and find it a flexible easy to use tool.
> There are lots of plugins that allow you create menus, and so on,  and to a
> limited extent edit the theme. I can't find a user friendly theme editor
> plugin that has the ability to allow the user to change the theme of their
> site. I've toyed with writing one myself, but don't have the time (or
> inclination) at the moment. I've searched the wordpress plugin library and
> can't see anything close to what the client wants.

I realize I'm coming into this late, maybe too late. But for future
reference, maybe he should take a look at Concrete5?
<http://www.concrete5.org>

Wordpress is great for blogs or sites with a front-running blog-like
centerpiece (things like news updates), but I've found it becomes
increasingly more cumbersome the more I want to deviate from that. I
still plan to use Wordpress for some new sites as Concrete5's blog
modules are payware and I have no idea how well they will work with the
tools I usually use for blogging.

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at speakeasy.net>