Looking for a free, embedable "post box" for clients...

[evanmiller2007]

Hey, I've been looking for a solution for this for a while and I was wondering if anyone has an idea of a way to accomplish this.
Basically, I make really simple websites for small businesses. Since they are ery simple, affordable sites (usually less than 8 pages), I don't use any sort of CMS and don't want to. However, I frequently get requests from clients to be able to post simple company news bulletins, event listings, etc on the page (without them having to bug me to make updates).
Normally I just set up a blogger account for them and link to it. I've also embedded a blogger using an iframe. Neither of these solutions are idea.
So, i'm wondering if anyone knows if there are any few online services that allow for simple posting right on a site? Maybe something as simple as cBox (http://www.cbox.ws/), which only allows the account admin to post messages? I thought about seeing if there was a way to embed a twitter feed (i've never used twitter), but it would be best if i could get something that allows more than 140 characters.

any ideas? I hope i've explained this all well. let me know what you think, and thanks in advance for the help!

[djr33]

The easiest thing here is a very simple "CMS". But I would just write my own code. All you need is a PHP-enabled server (or another language), and then to create a news text file. When the form is submitted, save the text file. And you probably want to attach a password to changing it.
Considering you want it for all of your clients and don't mind iframes, you could easily run this off your personal site, or you could run it individually on their site.
The code is not very difficult: the planning/setup is. So once you know a bit more, ask again with some details. How do you want to approach this?
If you just want the full code, this may be a better question for the paid help areas, especially since you're making money from it (and thus can probably afford a little cost). I could write it for you when I get a little time later, but it would take a bit to setup (including password protection, using multiple (single?) servers, etc.). And if I did it, it would be PHP (so I hope your host supports it).

You could try to use something like blogger, and that's fine, but you won't find anything very simple, so I'd suggest a custom approach.