easily updatable and editable websites..
I'm rather new to web design, I've made a few using what small amount of html I know along with Dreamweaver, Frontpage, ect. I'm doing a favor to a friend and redesigning his website. It's important to him that he be able to easily add content (a new page with a link on an existing page) and update existing information on lists (such as contacts and whatnot). Are there any good ways to go about this? I have no idea.
timjpriebe posted this at 12:54 — 2nd March 2005.
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Does he have Dreamweaver or Frontpage? The easiest thing for him would probably be to just design the site using whatever HTML WYSIWYG editor your friend has. That's what I do whenever I do sites for friends.
Tim
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hartmanja posted this at 14:02 — 2nd March 2005.
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That's the whole purpose, to avoid them editing the page like that. These are middle aged adults that qualify as "computer illiterate"
Megan posted this at 14:16 — 2nd March 2005.
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You could also look into blog sites and other automatic tools that might work. My site is entirely done with a blog script and it works great - not just for the blog but for other sections as well.
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timjpriebe posted this at 13:41 — 3rd March 2005.
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I would agree with the blog script idea. I've found Bblog easy to use, personally. More importantly, my wife has found it easy to use.
Bblog uses PHP and mySQL. I use it on my personal site (Thus the reason my wife uses it), thepriebes.com. However, that has a custom front-end. The built-in front end is visible at http://www.thepriebes.com/index.php But don't pass that URL around.
There's some other themes besides the one that php page is set up with, of course. But it's just an idea of what you can do.
Naturally, there's also 3rd part blogging sites, but I personally haven't messed with any of those.
Tim
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andy206uk posted this at 15:44 — 3rd March 2005.
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The actual term for what you are looking for is a CMS (content management system). They vary in cost from free to thousands of dollars. Developing a simple CMS is a relatively easy thing to do using some flat files and a bit of PHP.
Failing that... the really easy solution is to design the site with dreamweaver and allow the user to edit the site using Macromedia Contribute. the two programs work very well together.
Andy
Ron R posted this at 19:16 — 6th March 2005.
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I recommend http://www.wordpress.org
AyntRyte posted this at 05:12 — 7th March 2005.
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I second WordPress. With v1.5, it's evolving more into a CMS app, as you can add pages.
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