Updating a website

alanjgrace

Hi guys, thought i saw a thread on this before but cant find it anywhere.

I was wondering what you would recommend to make changes to a website, not a CMS but a way of making simple changes to an already existing site. I am aware of Contribute but im wondering what else is out there that is simple to use for a client and that could be installed on the server maybe that they could login to and make these updates.

Any help appreciated!

nikimere

You don't want a Content Managment System but you want your clients to be able to login to something running server-side and update the website?
What kind of changes would they be making? Graphics? Text? Layout? etc...

smash

sounds like they do need a cms.... you could create your pages as dreamweaver templates with some editible regions and then you could get them a copy of dreamweaver and set up the ftp client, they could only edit the selected regions then but they might find it a bit annoying...

alanjgrace

what i mean is i dont want to go and use a CMS such as joomla, the site would be designed in say dreamweaver and then i would want them to be able to make simple text and graphic changes.

There would be no point in buying dreamweaver for them - that is the purpose of contribute which i already mentioned. Im just wondring what other options are available.

DonkeyStyle \o/

I have to say I've found some CMS'es to be a bit much.
You log in and there's a ton of functionality you don't need/want.
Are there any CMS'es out there that are geared towards no-frills sites with say 4 or 5 static pages?

I suppose what you could do is place editable content into seperate files... say for example there's a block of text that describes the history of the company... you could leave it in a seperate .txt file on the server (in a specific folder along with the others), then import/include it into the web page.
All they have to do then is ftp it down, edit the plain-text in notepad, ftp it back up... very simple, no html.
[php]<?php
$filename = "content/about_company.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, 'r');
$content = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
$content = htmlentities($content);
$content = nl2br($content);
echo $content;
?>[/php]
Slap that in <p></p> tags and you're laughing (well sort of).