Browser HTML editing for dummies?
I design, create and edit my own pages. Recently, I've had several of my clients ask if they can update their own websites. Anyone know of a script or easy way to do this "without using Frontpage"?
I design, create and edit my own pages. Recently, I've had several of my clients ask if they can update their own websites. Anyone know of a script or easy way to do this "without using Frontpage"?
Busy posted this at 20:08 — 2nd March 2006.
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You'll probably find they would use frontpage no matter what, and when they make things worse they will come back to you and ask you to fix it, problem is you not only have to fix their stuff you have to remove all the frontpage stuff.
sample billing could go lke this:
$100 - if I update it
$200 - if you update it
$300 - if you update it then want me to fix it
Megan posted this at 20:55 — 2nd March 2006.
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You could also look for a script or CMS that would allow them to edit parts of the site through the browser. That might carry less of a risk of them screwing things up, since you could control what was editable.
Another option to look at could be Macromedia Contribute. It's sort of a "Dreamweaver light" that allows an administrator to control what others can and cannot do with a web page. That's about all I know about it though.
Megan
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02bunced posted this at 07:16 — 3rd March 2006.
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Yeah Contribute can have several permission levels. At its most locked-down level, you can have it so they can't touch any server side code or layout code, and can basically just enter text and images into the webpage. It costs about $130 I think (I don't do currency conversion and I'm British so it may be slightly inaccurate
) and is a really useful tool.
demonhale posted this at 08:11 — 3rd March 2006.
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theres something that I used in my template sites I forgot which script I modified, but it allows you to just login on a page, an icon for edit of different parts of the page will appear, from there they could edit and save... Although I suggest you use a CMS and teach them how to update...
KMDD posted this at 17:59 — 7th March 2006.
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I actually HAVE Contribute! Never even looked at it. I have the entire Studio Package but only use Flash and Fireworks. I don't even use Dreamweaver because I'm addicted to PageSpinner!! I'm be back to let you know if it works out. Do I owe any one a finder's fee?
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