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Best way to make an easily updatable site?

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  • 17-04-2006 3:11pm
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    the manglator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭


    I'm just wondering what is the best way of making a website for someone so that it is fairly easy for them to update themselves in the future.

    I was just thinking that for the regularly updated pages such as news I could set up a passworded page with a form so they could just fill out the form and when they submit it the text appears as the latest news, with the old news archived below it.

    Is this a good way of doing it? I'll be using dreamweaver.

    Thanks.


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    dahamsta
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    Simplest was it to use some kind of blogging software -- news is effectively a time-ordered journal after all. If you have experience with this kind of thing, I recommend using WordPress; if not try Blogger.


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    steve-hosting36
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    We use wordpress to run our blog and news section - see www.hosting365.com/blog and www.hosting365.com/news


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    GoneShootin
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    http://www.s9y.org/

    By far the best "blogging" system I've had the free opensource experience of playing with.


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    impr0v
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    If you wanted to avoid an off-the-shelf blog type solution and put something together yourself, and it is a very worthwhile exercise, you can use dreamweaver in connection with either ASP, PHP or Cold Fusion, and an access database, presuming the site isn't going to be very visitor heavy.

    A book I can recommend on the subject, if you wished to pursue it, is this one, available from amazon (obviously), and if you are using dreamweaver 8, there's an updated version. I used it to learn the IIS/ASP method and found it excellent, but it caters for all three above-named scripting languages in parallel.


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    Sposs
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    you can find a good selection of CMS's here http://www.opensourcecms.com/


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    Bananna man
    Registered Users Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Bananna man


    steve-hosting36 wrote:
    We use wordpress to run our blog and news section - see www.hosting365.com/blog and www.hosting365.com/news

    I've just set up a blog using Wordpress but when i cut and paste text from a word doc into it the formatting goes all over the place i.e. different font sizes and so on.

    The first time i cut and paste it did it fine but now im getting some problems. I have been looking into changing the font size (which i presumed would be straight foreward) but after reading through the help files all i have come up with is some stuff about changing the CSS layout styling.

    There must be an easier way to do this kind of thing. Im setting up the blog for my mum so changing CSS stylings is not an option!!

    Any ideas?

    Thanks


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