Answers.Body: <p>This is a difficult question to answer because there'll be multiple opinions, but here's one:</p>
  <p>An analogy is buying a car that only does car functions, like driving from to A to B, with no additional capabilities, but then also wanting a radio. Standalone civi is just the car. The radio, entertainment system, cigarette lighter, cup holders, etc are provided by a different product. If you want it bundled you need the bundled system.</p>
  <p>So you have a couple choices:</p>
  <ol>
  <li>Use civi with a cms.</li>
  <li>Use civi standalone, and separately install a cms. There's a couple choices here too as to how to set that up, and whether you need them to be under the same domain. At a minimum they can be completely separate with different domains and just have links in your content pages to civi pages.</li>
  <li>Use civi standalone, and do the content-pages old-school, without a cms and just making html pages which you upload manually to the server.</li>
  </ol>
  
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Body: <p>how / where can we create general content pages for our Contribution portal?  interested in the standalone version.</p>
  
Tags: <civicontribute><ckeditor><html><textarea><standalone>
Title: How do we create and manage general content pages
ThreadText: # How do we create and manage general content pages
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2024-05-16)
  
  how / where can we create general content pages for our Contribution portal? interested in the standalone version.
  
  **Tags:** civicontribute, ckeditor, html, textarea, standalone
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2024-05-17. Score: 2
  
  This is a difficult question to answer because there'll be multiple opinions, but here's one:
  
  An analogy is buying a car that only does car functions, like driving from to A to B, with no additional capabilities, but then also wanting a radio. Standalone civi is just the car. The radio, entertainment system, cigarette lighter, cup holders, etc are provided by a different product. If you want it bundled you need the bundled system.
  
  So you have a couple choices:
  
  1. Use civi with a cms.
  2. Use civi standalone, and separately install a cms. There's a couple choices here too as to how to set that up, and whether you need them to be under the same domain. At a minimum they can be completely separate with different domains and just have links in your content pages to civi pages.
  3. Use civi standalone, and do the content-pages old-school, without a cms and just making html pages which you upload manually to the server.
  
  
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