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Posted by Neredbojias on 07/20/05 20:13
With neither quill nor qualm, Jim Royal quothed
> A while ago, I put up a site for a client that had a very simple
> mechanism for providing a small bit of dynamic content. I'm looking for
> something better.
>
> The front page of the site has a weekly specials column. The entire
> site is unchanging aside from this small list of sales. I didn't feel
> that a CMS for such a simple site was warrented (and the client
> previously had a bad experience with a proprietary CMS and was leery of
> it). So I created a text file for the specials that I include using
> SSI. The text file is formated like this:
>
> <p>Item name</p>
> <p>Item details</p>
> <p class="price">Item price</p>
>
> And so on. It was my intention that a secretary could update this page
> on a regular basis with an hour of training. Six months later, we're
> finally getting around to training her.
>
> However, it now looks like the company wants to create customized
> landing pages for some of its clients. And I'm thinking that while
> updating one such text file would be manageable for the secretary,
> multiple ones might easily confuse her.
>
> So I'm looking for suggestions. The vast majority of the site will
> remain static. There's no need to rebuild the site using a CMS. But is
> there anything that would make this small amount of updating easier on
> the company's staff?
Uh, what's a "CMS"?
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Neredbojias
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