RE: dream website

You want a content management system. And to get one that's really good
you're going to have to build it yourself :)

I know because this is what I do all the time. The user has their
website and when they want to update it they logon to the system (which
caters for all sites you build as it works from templates) and are able
to update any content they wish. They can even add new sections etc.
simply by adding a new 'object' at a hierarchical level of their choice.
The actual editing is done through a basic WYSIWYG editor which allows
fonts, colours, tables, images, and a few other things (all generally
conforming to HTML 3.0 standard (might be good if you could make one
that used styles instead).

The user can then review the updates, publish the page (make it live),
edit it again, delete it etc. etc. etc. Then also in the system they can
review their discussion boards, newsletters, and the rest... limited
only by what you wish to make available to clients.

Now being on an Intranet allows unlimited possibilities because speed is
not an issue. You could have the whole site in Flash so that a page
never has to reload and so on and so on.

My dream site however is 2 steps ahead at the moment. Firstly it has a
no complaints, 100% easy to use navigational system. Secondly it is
completely modularised and so is easy to update, not only by the users,
but by the developer. The site functions just like an application so you
can just slot in new components without affecting the rest of the site.
Although I'm not swaying you towards Microsoft, I get the feeling that
this is what .Net is meant to be able to accomplish.

That's my thoughts anyways :)

Later,
Brett

"That's a pain that will shorely linger, and that's no lie" - Ed Grimley


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]
On Behalf Of Emerald Spirit
Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2001 4:02 AM
To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
Subject: dream website

Here's a topic that should make for interesting
discussions...

I'm playing around in my non-existant spare-time with
some ideas for an intranet within our company.  I'm in
the brainstorming stage - and trying to think up the
'dream intranet'.  At this point, I can use any
platform I wish.  NT/Unix; IIS/Apache;
ASP/JSP/PHP/.Net; Access/SQL/Oracle etc.  Or anything
else on the market (don't want to restrict anything at
this point).

The main thing - I want it easily updateable by people
who do NOT know HTML nor any coding for that matter. 
Normal every day users.  I want Human Resources to be
able to update their pages and Finance to be able to
update thiers.  I want them to be able to go in, edit
the text and formatting of the text.  It can be in a
database or a SSI - again, no restrictions at this
point.

The site (so far) will consist of 5 major
catagories... 120+ pages.

Any suggestions?  What would your 'dream' site be - if
you had no restrictions?  What would the best way be
to create an easily updatable site like this?

Rebecca

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