Advice On Client Updating Of Website

[tomyknoker]

Hi,

Up until now I have always just done websites that don't need to be updated. More and more the clients want to be able to update sites monthly with new text/images and things like that. Also news sections too. What is the easiest way to set this up? Would you use PHP? How would the client actually get the new data they have onto the site?

[djr33]

Heh. They could learn to code.

If you require them to be able to update via preview-based editors (wysiwyg- what you see if what you get), then you could install one of two or three wysiwyg javascripts for text boxes. Then store that data somewhere... file/database/whatever, then have that setup to go onto a page.

If you don't want to code it yourself, you could look up a content manager... they can be installed to your site and control everything, autogenerating pages, etc. Still something for the client to learn.

the easy way is just for them to learn html. But... that might not work.