I am a web designer with several clients and I want to give each of them the ability to to perform simple updates such as "news" (just plain text).

In the past, I used to update the sites manually myself, however I'm finding this process very tedious. It may be more efficient/faster if the client can do simple updates themselves. However, I don't want them modifying my html files, because they may accidently 'mess up' the code.

I considered just setting up a Blogger.com account and referencing the blog page through 'news' section, but taht didn't seem 'personal' enough.

Does anyone know of an easy way to allow a non-html user to update text on their page?

11/7/2005 11:26:16 AM

if you want to do a blog thing, don't used a hosted solution. Set up Wordpress on their own servers - http://wordpress.org/ . You can integrate it into the theme of the site, or just use the Wordpress API to store and show pages. This will allow them to add and edit pages/posts very easily.

Or if you have some pages already set up that they can modify, use a WYSIWYG inline HTML editor like
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/

of course, at the highest level what you're asking for is a Content Management System (CMS), which there are dozens of now (and which blogging engines like Wordpress could be considered simplified, specialized versions of).
That would require you to re-architect their sites, integrating the site into the CMS. Guess it depends on how much work you want to put into it and how much control you actually want to give your clients.
CMSs include Drupal, Mambo, ezpublish, php-nuke
a big list here - http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php

11/7/2005 11:56:51 AM

Just make a php page that pulls the text from a database. Then create a few web page forms to add/edit/delete the text that appears on the "news" page. Restrict the form access to those users and never look back at it again.

11/7/2005 11:59:21 AM

RSS feed

11/7/2005 12:24:44 PM

AJAX

11/7/2005 1:11:00 PM

Use a CMS(I recommend Mambo). No point reinventing the wheel and creating vulnerabilities in the process.

11/7/2005 7:22:40 PM