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[flasher]

Hello,

I have a client who simply wants 11 blank pages to the website. She would like her students to create and upload the content themselves...(using frontpage.)

How does this work? Do I have to send her the source code of the pages? Or can she just download the pages off the internet, edit them in Frontpage and reupload?

Also, I am using Dreamweaver. Will that conflict with the fact that the students will be using Frontpage?

Thanks in advance.

 

[derren]

Hi

I take it they want you to create 11 named pages simulating a completed site? In which case they will need to setup frontpage to download the pages, work on them and then upload them. This immediately gives the students the opportunity to connect to a web server from the start which is a very valid exercise.

If you had created full on pages using DW with bells and whistles and some half reasonable design I would cry into my coffee with the thought of Frontpage getting close to the pages. Frontpage is like a HTML bloatware package which can seriously damage some of your code (especially ASP) and increase your file sizes. Used well it can be not bad, but it is too easy to just go with it and let it corrupt your pages.

If you aren't going to have to work on the pages again, let it be! If you are, be prepared for wading through shedloads of superfluous code.

[I once took a slow loading HTML page from someone to try to speed it up - it was 148Kb of just text! - Once I had stripped out all the dross and formatted it exactly the same in DW it was 24Kb - it was a very long page] Derren
[The only person in the world to like Word]

 

[flasher]

Thanx. So I should just name 11 pages, upload them, give the teacher the ftp passwords, and tell her to download the pages when she wants to work on them? Can you tell me if I'm missing anything important?

Also, this may be a dumb question but how much would you charge for such a silly exercise? Should I do it for free or what?

Thanx for the input.

 

[derren]

Nope, that is all.

Thae price depends upon your relationship with them as a client. If this is the beginning of something larger I would probably do it for nothing else I would charge them about half an hour's work, feel a little guilty about it and then do it for free anyway.

What goes around comes around, and in this game good intentions spread like wild fire and usually yield better jobs later. Derren
[The only person in the world to like Word]

 

[Cheech]

"do it for free anyway"

what kind of programmer do you call yourself Live long and make your kids suffer..