Simplest method for editable website content
What would be the easiest and straightforward method for a website to be user editable.
Ideally the main design template is fixed and a section of text and image is changeable by a back end or by uploading a file. That say the index.htm then reads to populate a section of the page with.
I'd like to avoid using frames if possible.
Any advice would be gratefully recieved.
Thanks in advance.
davecoventry posted this at 07:25 — 24th June 2009.
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I would say your best bet would be a CMS system like Drupal or Joomla.
I'm told that Drupal is a superior product, but in my experience over the last 4 weeks or so, it seems to be poorly documented and if you look at the Drupal help forums a third of the questions asked by newbies receive no reply at all. And a high percentage of those posts that appear to be answered tend to be answered by their original posters, either in frustration, clarification or (relatively rarely) when they find the answers to their questions elsewhere.
That said, one of the reasons I'm persisting with Drupal is because it is designed with SEO in mind.
I don't have any experience of Joomla.
If you have a good grasp of Perl you could write your custom nodes in a similar way to Drupal and then put the content together from a template.
Or you can try what I did for a client once: Have a form that writes a textfield to a javascript file on your server in the form
var news=uploaded_content;, then have your html document display that by using <script>document.write(news);</script>Basically there are many way all of different complexity, ease of implementation and effectiveness. It depends on what you want to do.
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