[Worboren]

A friend asked me to develop a very basic web page for their company. All good and all but they need to have a table (sort of a schedule) that changes roughly twice a week. They want to change it themselves whenever needed and I have no idea how to even approach this. It's been a while since I last did any web design and I don't know PHP/CGI/Perl all that stuff, is it possible to do it on a very basic level with no programming knowledge and very down-to-earth? Also, it would obviously be better if the client side could be as simple as possible (sort of a web form with a submit button?)

Any help much appreciated.

[peterthorn]

I think it might be hard to accomplish without getting your hands a bit dirty with php or something.
You could look at hotscripts or other places and see if you can find something easily configured.

Peter

[philzilla]

if you have Dreamweaver, make a Template and set all the font sizes, colour, etc. that way, they can only alter the cells they need to alter. your layout stays the same and they (hopefully) shouldn't **** it up too much

[Worboren]

Originally posted by peterthorn:
<STRONG>I think it might be hard to accomplish without getting your hands a bit dirty with php or something.
You could look at hotscripts or other places and see if you can find something easily configured.

Peter</STRONG>

Thanks, I'll check it out. I already did some research and it looks like there's indeed no easy way. Except I thought maybe they can do their table in Word (should be no problems for a table only), save as HTML and teach them some basic stuff about FTP clients so they can upload to the server.

[Worboren]

Originally posted by philzilla:
<STRONG>if you have Dreamweaver, make a Template and set all the font sizes, colour, etc. that way, they can only alter the cells they need to alter. your layout stays the same and they (hopefully) shouldn't **** it up too much</STRONG>

Yes I do have Dreamweaver but they don't and they're a PC company so I couldn't install my copy on their machines even if they wanted to rip off Macromedia (and they probably wouldn't). So if I see my trip to the PHP land leads to nowhere I guess I'll have to stick with the MS Word solution I mentioned above...

[goatnet]

php would probably be your best solution. you can check out http://www.phpnuke.com and http://www.myphpnuke.com if you need a quick and dirty content management system. Just download it, uncompress the tar ball and edit some settings and you can post information via a web page interface. It can be very simple and VERY complex, but that's up to you. Also there's Blogger too.

[Mediaman_12]

Humm! How about doing that 'Server-Side Includes' thing I am sure you can reference a standard plain .txt file. (yes you can see this beginners tutorial).
This way all the client would have to do is upload there modified plain text file to the server and it would dynamically load into the space left by you in your page design.
If the content was more complicated than a TXT file could handle you could try a HTML file (google search for 'Server-Side Includes' for help) but this would require giving the client 'instruction' on what to change and what not to touch.