Re: Novice updates (was inexpensive wysiwyg)

I have been working on this problem with a customer whom is only just
computer literate and another whom likes to
play (i.e. likes to play with the background code just to see what happens)
I think I just described myself ;-) .
Since the site is on an intranet I had control over the browser being used
and this enabled me to use iframe's to call a .txt file with I.E. the
customer can then update any text in any word processor and save it as a
.txt file. The formatting of the page is then precisely as they typed it.
The only thing I don't like is the font but beggars cant be choosers and it
suits the application.

I am not sure if iframes are the answer better on public sites I think to
use SSI's but thought I would throw in my 2yuan's worth
Mark Bolton
Boltonmedia Consulting and Internet Services (China)
www.boltonmedia.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Dennis K <dennisk(at)louisville.edu>
To: Rebecca J. Walter <rjp(at)mail.tele.dk>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: 20 February 2001 15:36
Subject: Novice updates (was inexpensive wysiwyg)


>     I had hoped the simple solution would be to use the technology that
> Microsoft had designed for this specific need. Office workers using Word
> could open, edit, and save files on the ftp server just as easily as
> accessing anything in their My Documents file. But unfortunately, that
> doesn't work for most people here, probably because the University is a
> jumble of Novel/Office/GroupWise/NT environments supporting php, Crystal
> Reports and Access.  The solution given from top administration was for
> departments to buy their secretaries a copy of FrontPage (for a Unix
> server).
>
>     Do any of you have some suggestions that may make updating web pages
> easier for the inexperienced users? I currently rely on Notepad (or
WordPad)
> for limited html training, and WS_FTP for showing how to move files to the
> server.
> Dennis Keibler
> Univ. of Louisville
> Health Sciences Center
> http://www.louisville.edu/hsc/
> hscweb(at)athena.louisville.edu
>
>
>

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