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CushyCMS is another of the same sort and similar to Surreal CMS in that it is connected to your website and you can easily update things easily. You just insert the short line of code into div’s, img, h1 nearly any type of tag, this is the yet so simple code you insert class=”cushycms”. Surreal CMS works pritty much the same way, the thing with CushyCMS is that is a lot simpler with less features but the one thing that these two systems have most in common is that they are free to use. There is a premium service that you can pay for but the free version is just fine for what its worth. I have also connected this one to my website as well, I have also embedded the CushyCMS website in an iframe in my website to see how it could work for the client.

Quick video on how CushyCMS works above.

http://www.cushycms.com/

My website with the CushyCMS in the iframe below.

http://www.benmgiles.co.uk/cms.html

I’ve just found this new different type of content management system in that you connect it to your already built html website, you just type a new bit of code in the editable area you want and you get the options of changing that text or images in Surreal CMS. You don’t actually upload or install this on your own server and MySQL database, you just navigate to the Surreal CMS website itself. You have to make an account with them and connect your website to that account with the FTP details that you use for uploading your website.

http://surrealcms.com/

I have even connected my own website to this service, which is what it really is. This CMS is really simple to use and even has the option of just adding editors with restricted access, so this would be a great way for the client so that they would not change anything major on the website. This looks a great way for editing but doesnt really have a good and easy way for generating new pages, it does have a clone page option but thats not really the best way to do things.

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One of the big open source content management systems that everyone in my class, including myself which have been using for 2 years is Wordpress. Wordpress is mainly about bloging on the web known as a weblog to all of us at uni, and most of the rest of the world. This would make a realy simple stuctured website as you can also have pages in wordpress not just individual posts. I haven’t really thought about using wordpress until I thought about my own wordpress system and that you can have a whole host of different templates, maybe I could make one into what I need.

http://wordpress.org/

I now found a content management system that is free to use and has a lot of different things you can do with. This type of system is known as open source which means it is free to do what you wish with and is normally always free in price.

This content management system is a bit different in that you can actually build one yourself, it is called CMS Builder and there is a demo video of how you can do this at there site. Again this one you have to pay for so I need to keep looking.

http://www.interactivetools.com/products/cmsbuilder/

WebDeck is another content management system from Solid State Group, on there website I found a demo video of the system and I thought it looked a bit too complicated, here is a link to the video below.

http://www.solidstategroup.com/page/1212/webdeck-authoring-and-publishing-demo

This is the website of the system below

http://www.solidstategroup.com/WebDeck

I think I am looking in the wrong place.

Five site is a web design company and offer a content management system but I got the impression that I would have to pay for this so stopped looking into this.

http://www.fivesite.co.uk/FiveSuite/

Image from fivesite.co.uk that explains the basic idea of a content management system.

Where I work, they have done a primary school website as well and is a good design, better than what I could find looking through the internet and local schools in the area I live.

http://www.tiptoe.hants.sch.uk/

http://www.ashley-jun.hants.sch.uk/

http://www.ashley-inf.hants.sch.uk/

http://pennington-inf.hants.sch.uk/

http://www.priestlands.hants.sch.uk/

http://www.pennington-jun.hants.sch.uk/

Firebug is a Firefox plugin that lets you see how any website works, well built, it inspects the source code of any website and allows live changes to any website this is done locally on your computer so when you refresh the web page the changes you made revert back to the original. I use this helpfull plugin to learn more about how websites are constructed and when I want to edit my own pages on my website. So I have and will be using this to help myself with the pro project.

http://getfirebug.com/

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BOURNEMOUTH BEACH REPLENISHMENT TOP UP – MARCH 2009
SOUTHBOURNE
GROYNES 50 TO 53

During the 20th century, the cliffs were protected from sea erosion by building concrete seawalls, promenades and groynes. This allowed houses to be built on the cliff tops, but it also stopped the natural supply of sand and gravel to the shore. The beach has been replenished by four previous “Beach Improvement Schemes”, and is now effectively an artificial beach.

Replenishment began in 1970, with 84,000 m3 of beach material, followed by 1,400,000 m3 in 1974/75, 1,000,000 m3 in 1988/90 and 600,000 m3 in 2006.

The 2006 replenishment was the first part of this current project, when a total of 1,100,00 m3 of beach material was dredged from Poole Harbour channels and approaches, and added to the beaches of Swanage, Poole and Southbourne. There was insufficient material to replenish all of Bournemouth’s beach, so in the winter of 2007, the scheme added 700,000 m3 to complete the beach.

This 700,000 cubic metres of sand was dredged from a Licensed Dredging Area off the Isle of Wight and was deposited on Bournemouth Beach, to protect it from erosion.

This current replenishment scheme allows for three annual top-ups to keep the beach volume high, this being the second top-up.

HOW WILL THE BEACH MATERIAL GET ONTO THE BEACH?
The beach material will be dredged off the Isle of Wight and brought by dredger close to the beach. Because of the shallow water, the dredger will pump the beach material ashore through a long floating pipe. To assist it being pumped, the beach material is mixed with a considerable amount of water. As the mixture exits the pipe, the water flows back to sea, leaving the sand and gravel behind. The beach is then levelled by bulldozers.

WHAT WILL THE BEACH LOOK LIKE?
Initially the beach material will look darker than that on the current beach, but will lighten to a normal colour with exposure to oxygen and daylight. In the first few weeks, small ledges may appear in the beach as wave action sorts the new material into a natural beach profile.

The replenishment will also result in a wider beach than we currently have.

WILL I BE ABLE TO USE THE BEACH WHILE WORK IS IN PROGRESS?
Yes, but in the interests of health and safety, it will be necessary to stop people using the short length of beach while material is being pumped ashore and moved by bulldozers. The closed section will be between Groynes 50 and 53, at Southbourne. There is a slight risk of quicksand during the replenishment work, so it is best not to go onto the new beach for a few days, until the water drains away completely. The promenade will remain open even when pumping is under way.

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE?
It is proposed that the work begins in early March 2009, and will be completed within two weeks, dependant on calm weather conditions.

WHO IS PAYING?
The work is funded from 100% Grant Aid from The Environment Agency (formerly Defra the government (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). It is being carried out by Westminster Dredging Co Ltd on behalf of Bournemouth Borough Council.

WILL ANY FURTHER WORK BE NEEDED?
One more top up is planned for next year. The exact location and timing will be confirmed much closer to the time. The existing timber groynes 51 and 52 are life expired and will shortly be rebuilt, using the replenishment beach as a working platform.

THE BEACH MATERIAL
The dredging area off the Isle of Wight has been specifically selected as the material at this location is the most similar to the natural beach material at Bournemouth, and is within economical reach for the dredger. This will be a combination of approximately 80% sand and 20% shingle. Coarser material is needed to ensure the beach is not washed away, and it is possible that, from time to time, this naturally rises to the surface, particularly at more exposed areas in the east of the bay.

FURTHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT:
www.poolebay.net is a dedicated website including a daily diary. It will include any changes to the dates, as they occur.