Sorry me again
Also if I am just using Dreamweaver, with HTML, am I able to hand over my site to my customer?
Thanks
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Sorry me again
Also if I am just using Dreamweaver, with HTML, am I able to hand over my site to my customer?
Thanks
That should indeed be possible, I'm not familiar with exacly Dreamweaver, but most programs have some function to export it.
Even if it can't export, it'll have to be sendable, due to the fact that it is meant to be on the net, where an HTML page is 100% free to view source of ;)
Dreamweaver can export the site from your machine to the server where it will be deployed. Basically, Dreamweaver has a local folder where it stores the site for development, and a remote site for final publishing. It can publish the site for you to that remote server. Naturally you need the password and connection information for the remote site (it also allows for a test server, but you don't have to have one).
It's also perfectly possible just to take the local directory where the development site is and just copy it/zip it up/whatever.
I usually provide a zipped version for my customers.
Paul
Quote:
Originally Posted by ShinyB
I am not sure what the real question is. Do you want the client to be able to modify the content? :)
Yes I want my customer to be able to manage the content once the site has been built.
I am a bit worried though that if someone has access to the complete site they can screw up the page itself when trying to attempt to edit the content.
So, is there a way I can build the site and provide access only to the main content of the pages. What I'm trying to suggest is like you can update a news scroller on a separate file - would I be able to use this method? Would this be best and as minimal effort as possible for the client?
Thanks for all replies, just need to brainstorm it
Adobe contribute: http://www.adobe.com/products/contribute/features/Quote:
Originally Posted by ShinyB
You author with dreamweaver, they update with contribute.
I haven't used contribute, but that's the idea.
Alternatively produce the site using a full-blown CMS.
Paul
Ooh ok, had never heard of Contribute. Will look into it thanks, also looked into CMS but not sure what it will involve and don't think I am quite ready for that yet! Thanks again
Well, I hate to admit that microsoft accually made something useful for this, called masterpage, but I think that it's only compitable with aspx pages...
It is going to take some care to make things work. My advice would be to build a very small simple site, perhaps one or two pages of rubbish and use the contribute trial to see how you get on. It will be necessary to identify which parts are editable by contribute and which parts are not.
Don't try and build the whole site and then see if contribute will do as you want - it probably won't (straight off).
Experiment until you are comfortable with the technology.
Paul
I am in the process of doing that at the moment using cms through "movable type" which has wysiwyg editor so that the client can edit content. The programme has various levels of authority which allows you to control what they can edit. There are quite a few "open sourced" programmes like this which cost no money and all that you have to do is to upload them to the site and work from there. What I doing at the moment is working from Localhost and then getting Dreamweaver to edit the templates provide by movable type and then uploading it. Basically it it a blog based site with a few more bells and whistles. The reason for doing it this way as the site is community based and it would work out really expensive if all of the members who want to have a certain number of pages have to pay £110 each for the privilege to edit their pages and who many would you rely on doing this properly this way you can really restrict their access.
I recommend to use a Content Management System (CMS). Personally, I prefer Typo3, but there are also other good CMS available.
see also:
Remi
Remi, typo3 looks good, but I always get nervous when I see things like (c) 2006 on the website together with a news section where the latest entry is March 2007. Is it generally doing well?
Paul
Yes, the Typo3 project is one of the biggest and agile open source CMS project, I'm aware.
Please reconsider, that there are different Typo3 websites available. I've linked to typo3.com, which contains a short feature overview and acts as a "information" page for new users. The "news" section there contains only a excerpt of the available Typo3 news (don't know why they don't publish the current news there). The more "in depth" website for Typo3 is http://typo3.org/ together with the current news from today at http://news.typo3.org/.
Remi
Thanks Remi - definitely worth a look.
Paul