How to? Clients making small updates to text and images on website

So I am only just starting out as a webDev, and I use Bootstrap-sass and I am only on my 3rd paid project!

Well I met with a client, who would like to make small text changes and or images on specific portions of the site anytime.

Is this possible without wordpress? I am hoping there is a jQuery solution. Or is this what Angular,React, etc. are for?

For CMS, the solution is wordpress, but as you said that for making small updates you can create separate section as CMS in your backend and you can use HTML editors like CKEditor, TinyMCE, What You See Is What You Get(WYSIWYG ) etc editors which use jQuery, and they are easy to implement in your backend.

Ok so I use something like froala.com/wysiwyg-editor/docs/examples/live-cont… right? But you say " you can create separate section as CMS in your backend" What do you mean?

@apmcbride803 The link you have posted here is right, you can use that one also. CMS in backend means, let's take a simple example, you have one web page where you have sections like header, sliding images, main content, and footer, which have its respective contents. Here you can create a table in your database as per your structure and assign name as a header, footer etc. and description and with the use of editors like you are using you can customize the content and save that content in DB , and fetch that content in respective section in front-end or web page. So whenever you changes the content in your backend with an editor that will be reflected in your web page. So I recommend you to use this if only you are updating less content, otherwise, you have to use CMS like WordPress, drupal etc. If you have any doubts on this, then feel free to ask.

As @Robert suggested, a CMS will work great in this situation. As for the platform, Wordpress is currently the most popular, well-maintained and extendable CMS with easy to use editor, even for someone with no technical background.

Update - Wordpress can be an overkill thought. If the site won't be edited that much and the changes would be minimal, you should look for another solution, @RK and @labsvisua gave some good ideas.

The challenge for him is to connect his template(s) to Wordpress. If you don't know anything about Wordpress and PHP, that's gonna be hard I reckon?

True, it may be a bit difficult if you don't have previous experience with Wordpress. Still, there are tons of great guides and tutorials. The real question here is how big these changes will be.

@Kleo The changes would be so minimal that going Wordpresss seems so overkill. In the days of Flash I would let the client make changes to an XML sheet.. I wish HTML had a similar solution.

@Kleo and @Robert have already mentioned the ways; I'll just explain them in a little more detail.

So, I get what you're trying to do. Now, there are two paths:

easy - you use a CMS;
hard - static site-data is stored in a SQLite database (sort of a lite-CMS).

You might go the easy way to get started, however, I won't recommend this simply because a fully-blown CMS will be too much if you only want site-data changed.

The hard way, simply put, asks the user to enter the data, then stores it in a small database. Then you can very simply pull it out using some backend via REST, and display it with a frontend framework. :)

For that kind of control by the client, a CMS works best. Wordpress is an option, but there are others out there of course.

Seeing that you're new to this field, this can be quite hard to learn at first, but when you've done this, it will make your life a whole lot easier :)

Like @labsvisua said: do you have examples or more specific questions? That way we can help you better :)

Lets say the client wants to change the Paragraph on this page bakerpaint.com/demo/home.html How would I go about setting that up without having to use wordpress?

It's quite impossible to do without a CMS system I think... Unless you want to teach the client HTML ;)

Didn't quite get you. Can you give a small example, or illustration?

Let's say there is a "about" page. And they want to be able to change the text on that page under "about"

So, like a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editor?

So I'm looking into WYSIWYG froala.com/wysiwyg-editor/docs/examples/live-cont… and this could work if I had a "admin" page with the editor, and once adjusted it would reflect onto a seperate "Live" page. Is this possible or make sense?

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