Re: Updating Web pages from the browser

Chris:

If your co-worker knows nothing about HTML, can we assume they are uploading
simple text???

If so, I suggest using the simplest possible approach. An Include file.
(SSI) Easy to do and virtually no programming to worry about.

In your page you call the file like so:

<!--#include virtual="filename.txt"-->

Note the extension, "txt" can be almost anything.
The text file that will be upgraded is uploaded to the same directory as
your web pages. (Or any other directory as long as you include the path in
the above tag)

It is possible that you may have to change the extension of your web pages
from .htm to .html or .shtml or .stm depending on your host and the server
they use. Some hosts are still reluctant to parse all pages for SSI so they
require the different extension for the pages containing SSI. No biggie
here--just ask your host what extension to use. (Remember to change you
links!!)

Give your co-worker a copy of CuteFTP, (or any of several equally nice FTP
programs), and let them upload it to your web just like they would with a
"browser". Here however, you can set the "Site Manager" in CuteFTP to
connect to both the site AND the location on the co-worker's hard drive, all
with just one click.

They would edit the new text in NotePad or whatever else you may wish them
to use. They then Save it as the same filename and upload it to "update"
what was on the web previously. You can even have several different files on
the same page, (using different file names of course), or the same file on
several different pages.

SSI files can contain HTML and just about anything else but this may be
beyond your co-worker at this time. Example: The same principle would apply
to pictures. Create a new picture--save it under the old name and
upload--Volia ... New Picture.

Best wishes
Ted Temer
Temercraft Designs Redding, CA
temer(at)c-zone.net
www.temercraft.com/
www.newsredding.com/


> > How can I design a Web page so that another coworker (who knows nothing
> > about Web authoring) can update the information from her browser? I know
> > this is possible. I would like to search for tutorials on the Web, but I
> > don't know what term to use. Can someone please give me some direction?
> >
>
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