Best way to allow someone to update or edit?

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John Stewart

I want to create a Frontpage site for someone's small
business. One of the pages on the site will include a
listing of events that will change periodically. I want
to allow the person to update the changes.
Any suggestions on the best way to do this.
Would that person need to purchase Frontpage, and simply
update the existing page, or is there an easier method?
 
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I want to create a Frontpage site for someone's small
business. One of the pages on the site will include a
listing of events that will change periodically. I want
to allow the person to update the changes.
Any suggestions on the best way to do this.
Would that person need to purchase Frontpage, and simply
update the existing page,
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That's certainly one method. However, the business owner
might mess up the site, or might decide they don't need
you for future proejcts.
or is there an easier method?
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The usual alternative is a database that contains the
events. You create some screens for the business owner to
add, change, and remove events, and retrieve events from
the database for display on the live site.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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|\----------------------------------------------------/|
|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out ||
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out ||
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition ||
|| Troubleshooting Microsoft FrontPage 2002 ||
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming ||
|| (All from Microsoft Press) ||
|/----------------------------------------------------\|
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John Stewart said:
I want to create a Frontpage site for someone's small
business. One of the pages on the site will include a
listing of events that will change periodically. I want
to allow the person to update the changes.
Any suggestions on the best way to do this.
Would that person need to purchase Frontpage, and simply
update the existing page, or is there an easier method?
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probably best to buy the software....unless they know html (which even for basic
changes would be a challenge for someone who doesn't know HTML).
 
Jim Buyens said:
That's certainly one method. However, the business owner
might mess up the site, or might decide they don't need
you for future proejcts.


The usual alternative is a database that contains the
events. You create some screens for the business owner to
add, change, and remove events, and retrieve events from
the database for display on the live site.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
*------------------------------------------------------*
|\----------------------------------------------------/|
|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out ||
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out ||
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition ||
|| Troubleshooting Microsoft FrontPage 2002 ||
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming ||
|| (All from Microsoft Press) ||
|/----------------------------------------------------\|
*------------------------------------------------------*
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Speaking of which, if you want a web interface to edit, this site
www.ezscripting.co.uk has an excellent range of cgi scripts, which are easy to
set up and simple to use. They are based on flat file databases and entail four
scripts, edit, write, search and read plus a backup utility and news script as
well which is similar to the others (using flatfiles) but displays news items.
visit the site - it may or may not be what you want, and you can probably play
around with FP and come up with an ASP solution or something, provided your ISP
supports ASP they may well support PHP or CGI more readily.

There are also CGI scripts on the web (free or pay-for) that do allow remote
editing (throgh a web based interface). that type of thing would be ideal,
rather than the hassle of editing the page then uploading it
 
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