Ok, here's the outline of what I'm trying to do:

I'm making a page for a client, and he needs this page to be updated regularly by him. I want this page to be updated easily without any knowledge of HTML, yet still retain the the same formatting and CSS. I want to take this even further if possible. I want him to type it in an external text file, and then just link to that text file on the web page. If this is possible it would be great.

Ok that is pretty much the jist of it. The problem is I have no idea where to start. I have never seen an example of this anywhere so I don't know if it is even possible. Any help would be appreciated.

BTW Here is a rough draft of the site that I am putting on Angelfire as an example: www.aaalending.net

Will the server have PHP?

It's fairly simple to write a script to allow him to update through a form on a private area of his site.

I did one for goldenage.co.uk a while ago and they found it easy enough.

azn try using PHP or ASP. Try going to hotscripts and check out what they have for ASP or PHP!

You can do this using either a php or ssi include. Just create an area on the page and souround it with the <pre> tag. You can define what font color and size to show text in css and not have to worry about your client not knowing the <br> for spacing.

ssi
<!--#include file="customers.txt" -->
Make sure your documents extension is changed from .html to .shtml

or

php
<?php include ('customers.txt'); ?>
Change from .html to .php

All your customer has to do is layout his page formatting the way he expects to see it in notepad and upload.

Hope that helps

Cheers,

Thanks for all the replys guys. It is starting to give me an idea. The examples at hotscripts really help. I'll see what I can do now.

good luck!