Newbie Question about Site Design

[ma_wilson]

Hello everyone. I am a very 'green' designer just starting to get into everything. My question is probably a very simple one. I use photoshop and Dreamweaver 8 to do my editing and design of my sites for xyz company....after i design the site for them, how do i make the site editable for the client so that they can maintain the site themselves? Which program do I use to do this? and HOw do I do it? This seems to be a common practice, and would love to know how...Thanks to anyone who replys in advance!

[Wickham]

You could use a content management system (CMS) which is usually used so that the website designer doesn't have to do mundane daily updates; they can be done by unskilled people online without accessing the original code.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system
Most CMS software include WYSIWYG editing tools allowing non-technical individuals to create and edit content.

Google "content management system" for lots of free code. These are two that I've seen mentioned in other posts but I've never used them.
http://www.joomla.org/
http://www.opensourcecms.com/