Building a user-maintainable website

[James Hutton]

Thanks James Tjhat's the sort of thing I'm thinking of.

It's made more difficult for me because (a) she only has MS works (!)
and (b) she really is not at all technical - but a very good cellist
btw! and (c) I would ideally use CSS to mark up the content, and it
could be difficult to ensure the CSS class names are in her content,
and that no additional formatting/layout creeps in by accident

Regards,
Mark.

Mark,

Works has HTML output options. As it is only a list of dates and times
etc, why not set up a template in Works for her - choose fonts, font
sizes and background colours to suit the original style.

James

 

[Anon]

Mamboserver is a very good product, however for simple users it is
quite difficult to use. Also creating a template might be a problem.

There is something that might be an interesting alternative, look at
the following URL for a demonstration of how to provide editable
content:
http://smpc.com.br/inventory/customers/www/demo.htm

This solution is very easy to use, and also very cheap, and you don't
need installation of any specific software (only ASP enabled website).

(contact me via : http://smpc.com.br)

regards, Allie

 

[Miselaineous]

Hi,

I am a webdesigner/developer by trade. Whilst my day job involves
working for a software company, I also create sites for people from
time to time.

My biggest dilema at the moment is how to create a site that the
non-technical end-user can maintain.

<snippy snip>

I just finished doing the same research for a client who only needs to
update a segment of a page on her site with upcoming events and such.
I didn't want to install a 5MB blog package, and she's profoundly
tech-phobic and running an ancient Mac, so I didn't want to try
teaching her the "upload the file that I'm including in this page"
method.

Here's the one I settled on. It's LAMP freeware, not MS/ASP -- just in
case you make the move....

qlitenews
http://www.r2xdesign.net/phpscripts/p1.html

you might need to do some tidying up, code-wise. (I did.)
http://secunia.com/advisories/19476/

-Miselaineous