Created the CMS from scratch and while a monumental task is was nothing but fun.
From a design perspective (i am not the designer) ... designer had to create a template that client could add and remove content, and style with certain guidelines.
It’s worth noting that this CMS was created for a user with NO html experience. To help accomplish this the editor used in is a javascript Rich Text Editor... it’s really a shame it’s not public. Part of the challenge (besides actually creating the editor).. is creating intuitive tools for tables and uploaded images and boxes and cross links.
Here are some examples of pages they created:
Farrell Prize in Sleep Medicine
Courses
What We Do
As you can see that the editor is pretty flexible. Site is presented to user in a treelike structure and they select which pages they want to edit.
From a XHTML/CSS perpective … styles had to be carefully coded to accept the various combination of styles that user can create.
So… this was a great project… standard xhtml/css site, but the real power lies in the custom built CMS.