I have a client that wants to be able to update daily a page on a website that I will build. This has to be done so as to be completely user friendly. I just need some direction of where to start looking to be able to accomplish this.

I know of a couple of ways:

1) Client could ftp .txt files to a directory for page designed to look for txt files in previously mentioned directory - for its page content (quickly over my head with the details there) by using flash or javascript... archiving would present some headaches ... quickly moving into databases and the even further from the world of being user friendly.

or...

2) www.blogger.com (or any other weblog service out there) I use blogger because - blogger is free - it can be hosted on your site - or theirs - archives are optional, as are the number of days displayed on the webpage - posts may be made by using the google toolbar, the blogger.com website, or even from the end users site - you can code html into the text design - you can also upload images inline to the blog.

The creative part is how you'd integrate the blog into the site design... they have a number of templates to start with, or the whole look can be created from scratch... if you know html.

Please let me know if this was of any help...

-A

You may write a simple script that will post your client's text. just create form to fill and then post an info that he will enter...

Yeah I tend to agree with andrews_john, this is a classic example of a form that posts your user's data to a script that inserts it into a database. The main page then reads its content out of that database in some sort of fashion.

This is a little work on your part to make it really user friendly, but that's what keeps it fun and interesting, no?


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