adding a "news updater" to site?

[nicK]

(noob quesion)
i'm building a website at the minute with dreamweaver and am wondering what the best way is to update my index.htm when i want to regularly update the "news"?

i'm aware of phpnuke etc, which would be perfect, but i don't want to get involved in that as i'm building a fairly simple/basic site and would like to stick with the design i have.
the main content of the site will always stay the same, so it's just the main 'news' page i will be wanting to update every week or so..

is it best to update the site by editing the html everytime?
or is there an alternative/easier, less time consuming method?

RobertFoster

Try newspro.

DRakE

I googled it,

http://www.netwu.com/newspro/

Looks pretty good actually.. I'm looking for the same thing myself for updating myself

mneylon

Coranto would probably do the trick:
http://coranto.gweilo.org/

damien

Kind of the same question myself. A guy in work has been put in charge of his local club's website. He wants me to show him how to use frontpage to update the site. I'd prefer him not using that though. The guy has no clue about writing html code and has no intention of learning.

Is there a free application or server side tool that will allow him to use a wysiwyg style editor to change and update his website ?

Thanks.
Damien.

mneylon

There are a lot of CMS out there, but most of them involve giving the user some level of training. I'm yet to see an OSS one which was completely "idiot proof"

[nicK]

blacknight wrote:

Coranto would probably do the trick:
http://coranto.gweilo.org/

perfect!
cheers, that's exactly what i was looking for.
i've got it fully installed now and am now just trying to integrate it into the site a little better (colours/text etc)

[nicK]

totally off topic here, but couldn't be arséd creating a new thread...

now that i have the "news" part sorted, im now looking to add a scrollbar for scrolling down through the news only. i want to avoid using "frames".

can the scrollbars be downloaded and easily inserted? or are they built with different code for each site?
can they be inserted into the same table as news? or does it get more complicated?

Ph3n0m

sounds like you want to do something like the homepage of


http://www.dhtmlcentral.com/

[nicK]

Ph3n0m wrote:

sounds like you want to do something like the homepage of


http://www.dhtmlcentral.com/

nah, it's nothing that sophisticated..
just a simple scroll bar to go through my 1 page of news..

i'll have a browse through some sites and try to find an example.. (it's pretty common)

[nicK]

does aanybody know what i'm talking about?
i've been searching through a good few sites and can't find it used anywhere.. but i have seen it a few times before.
it's used a lot on java/flash sites? but i will be using it for my .html site..
any ideas?

[nicK]

ok, here is an example of the scroll bar i'm after..
linky

any ideas?

mewso

Put your news in a div and then in the style of the div set it's height to as much screen space you want of the news to be viewable at any one time then add in this to the style:-

OVERFLOW: auto;

I'm assuming you are talking about something like this

Thats how I did it anyway.