Remote Page Alteration

[cshack]

Hello,
I have to build a web site for a restaurant - easy enough, but we've come up with an idea for the customer to amend a page (the menu's) form his own PC at home.
Do you know of a way that we could do this as he has to amend his menu's every week or so and he thought that he might be able to do it himself instead of sending me the alterations and I amend the page and upload it through the normal ways.

Many thanks in advance.

 

[Julianne]

If your customer knows HTML or has web sofware, plus an FTP program, maybe he could make the amendments and upload to your server like that (you'd have to give him the relevant FTP details, of course).

If you use Dreamweaver you could create the relevant page from a template so that your customer could only alter his part of the page instead of risking your whole design!

Otherwise, I think you might be looking at some kind of content management system (Oracle do the one we have at work, plus I think Macromedia Sitespring is one and Adobe do one, possibly) but these are not cheap and still take some learning.

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[pharcyder]

If the design is always the same (or more likely the same), you could use a dynamic website (just for the menu).

You could use PHP or ASP to dynamically generate the site, you just need a data source like a textfile or a database.

So you could make a form in which the user enters the data, he saves it and the data is online (Your template never changes...).
You build your own "content managmement system" and it should be cheap because nearly every provider supports PHP or ASP or perhaps CGI- or PERL-Scripts (which is harder to develop, though).
If your provider also supports databases, there should really be no problem integrating this (Better than uploading or changing a textfile every time...)

PHP and MySQL are free and easy to use. MS-ASP (Active Server Pages) and an ODBC-connection should also be available from most providers for free.

And the best thing is, the end users just uses your form to enter the data (in a secure area of the website, of course)
and don't need to know how to upload or how to code HTML...

Just lean back..

Greeting from Germany,
Jens