Re: Formatting question

At 08:07 AM 8/16/2002 -0500, you wrote:

[snip of Word 9 explanation]

>Does anyone have a suggestion for a way to get these newsletters onto the
>site easily, and still have some nice clean code? (Other than ask the pastor
>to use a simpler format for the newsletters? Hehe.)

If you have Dreamweaver available (or the time to download the demo) the 
Word conversion tool works fairly well. You'll still wind up rooting around 
by hand, but DW will make it a little less painful.

For updates you could use something like Movable Type. MT is very flexible 
and with a little creativity it's not hard to set up templates that avoid 
the standard weblog format. This would make updating easy and also provide 
a browser based interface for remote editing.

[snip]


>To save time and bandwidth, what I
>had considered doing was creating a frameset with a frame at the top for the
>banner and navigation, and then a frame at the bottom that the newsletters
>and other content could be channeled into. Here again, does anyone have
>ideas for a better solution?

Rather than a frame you could use SSI or PHP to include the static 
elements. This would have the same timesaving and maintenance advantages of 
frames, without any of the drawbacks.

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Al Sessions
al(at)oldforgefd.org
http://www.fultonchaindesign.com/mt (personal weblog)

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