Re: Need Input

You could have them type the information into an Excel spreadsheet.  From
there, you can export as CSV, and then use Dreamweaver's 'Import Tabular
Data' command.  (I'm sure other editors have a similar command).

Possibly not the best solution, but it might be fairly simple if you want to
get it running quickly.

Hope this helps,

Tim



http://www.timbooker.com/



----- Original Message -----
From: "Catenae Web Sites" <catenae(at)catenae.com>
To: "HTML Writer's Guild Techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 3:16 PM
Subject: Need Input


> I have several clients whose sites require regular updates to class
> schedules and/or inventory. Fortunately, these clients have no interest
> in directly updating their own pages; however, I'd like to streamline
> the process--make it easier for them to pass the information to me
> (prompting them for required data) and maybe pre-format some of it as a
> time-saver. I've thought of two possibilities:
>
> (1) A form into which they can type the schedule information. This form
> would pass the data to a program which creates a formatted HTML page
> which can be edited (if they make a mistake), then saved to the server.
>
> (2) Have the client type the specified information into a database, then
> pull the page on the fly. This sounds more efficient--it might make
> intervention on my part unnecessary altogether--but wouldn't it involve
> writing a client-friendly interface for the database?
>
> My server supports MySql, PHP, Perl and C. Unfortunately, while I'm
> passingly familiar with Unix shell scripting, I have no experience with
> any of these. I am familiar with JavaScript, and I'm willing and able to
> learn the others, but I'd like to implement this soon, so I'm searching
> for the flattest learning curve which will yield the best results. Which
> would you recommend? Any other suggestions? I'd appreciate some help
> thinking this through.
>
> TricheO
>

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