Need some basic publishing concept help

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Greg de Bruin

We are using FrontPage to run our small company intranet. We have some
policy documents and bunches of How-To pages for different company
procedures.

Right now, I have a full local copy of the site on my laptop and that is
where I edit or add pages. When I am ready, I then publish the changes to
the company site, which is on a server on our LAN.

Here is my problem. Remember I'm new at this stuff. By setting things up
this way, everyone who wants to edit a procedure hsa to come to me now,
start up FrontPage on my laptop, and make the edits. How do I set it up so
they can use Word to edit the page they want to change and then I'll approve
the change before I publish it? They would have to be working with the most
current copy of the page which means they would have to access it from my
laptop or the server.

I know this probably sounds stupid to you experienced guys but I just don't
get how this process is done in real life.

Thanks for your help,

Greg de Bruin
 
Your users can open the official site in their browser and use File Edit w/ MS Word (if they don't have FP and have Word set as
their default editor for html pages), and then save their edits to their PC, email you the word file and you can File import their
word .html files into you FP web

PS - Stop using your laptop (-;
Create a subweb on your server (staging) and publish the current site there
Use the staging subweb for your edits (unless you often do them away from the server)

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| We are using FrontPage to run our small company intranet. We have some
| policy documents and bunches of How-To pages for different company
| procedures.
|
| Right now, I have a full local copy of the site on my laptop and that is
| where I edit or add pages. When I am ready, I then publish the changes to
| the company site, which is on a server on our LAN.
|
| Here is my problem. Remember I'm new at this stuff. By setting things up
| this way, everyone who wants to edit a procedure hsa to come to me now,
| start up FrontPage on my laptop, and make the edits. How do I set it up so
| they can use Word to edit the page they want to change and then I'll approve
| the change before I publish it? They would have to be working with the most
| current copy of the page which means they would have to access it from my
| laptop or the server.
|
| I know this probably sounds stupid to you experienced guys but I just don't
| get how this process is done in real life.
|
| Thanks for your help,
|
| Greg de Bruin
|
|
 
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