Is anyone aware of a technique, software, or technology that allows a regular non-web person to perform updates to their web site without FTPing, HTML, or using a Frontpage thing?
For example, one of my clients has a shopping cart. Currently I go in and hard code product info into a file, upload to server, is then which is picked up by the shopping cart template.
Besides the shopping cart example, I'm generally looking for options for a regular person to be able to perform edits or updates to their own web site with out a web master's assistance.
Hi,
I've recently built a site for a realtor (www.cornettrealtors.com) that wanted to be able to add listings and edit certain pages. I've accoplished this by using various CGI scripts that can be found at http://www.cgi-resources.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/ . Problem is, people want to be able to edit a site but don't want to learn how to do so. I tell most people that any site is editable by three methods.
1-take the time and effort to learn how to create and edit HTML code, THEN learn how to use an HTML editor
2-pay the money it takes to have the kind of programming done that makes a site editable
3-pay a firm to do it for you
If you have any knowledge of a server side language writing a script that allows a user to update their own site is one of the most basic functions of such a language - its just file input and output.
Thanks for responding, Chris. Could you provide me with some direction on resources for server side script writing. I'm thinking of learning mySQL and PHP - are these the appropriate tools?
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