Need ideas for website updates

[Deano]

Hey,

I need to find an effective way of having my html websites updated by my customers. I design sites for amateur football clubs as a bit of a hobby(
bannockburnamateurfcDOTCOM & cambusbarronroversDOTCODOTUK). The problem is, I don't know CMS and due to the nature of games happening every weekend and fixtures and results having to be posted up, I would like it if my customers could do it themselves.

Only idea I have is for them to purchase dreamweaver and do what I do in building them, although this is hardly a cost effective (my time teaching them & price of software) means of updating their sites.

Does anyone have any ideas how I can do this?

All suggestions much appreciated

[Coding Monkey]

You could look at getting Mambo (http://www.mamboserver.com/). I hate it with a passion, but it's free and some people even like it.

[Deano]

Having already created the site, with using mambo, would i need to start again from scratch?

Can you log on remotely and upload content via internet?

Cheers,

Deano

[eMarketing Mark]

Deano,

This is easily done using a blog based website - you can use the CMS functionality and it is the perfect vehicle for what you want to do. You can even use it to help create more of a community around the site - all sorts of benefits come to mind, actually.

You can incorporate it into the current site so no need to start again from scratch, simply integrate the area into the design and work out the way in which you want the information to appear. It can be updated remotely, via password protection as you request presuming that you use a good system.

While it is not quite the Business Blogs that I am promoting generally, it would be a very nice solution for what you are looking to do I believe.

All the best,

Mark

[Deano]

thanks for your replies everyone - no idea where to start with mambo!

I have experience in setting up a php bulletin board (check out the cambusbarron site i mentioned).

Is there a program that I can use to specify a text area in my dreamweaver design which can be edited remotely?

I need the most cost effective way - preferably free (such as the free php boards you get) as I'm not exactly making a lot of money from this.............yet ;)

Thanks for your ideas folks, just need to get onto the "how" now

[eMarketing Mark]

If you insist on going the Dreamweaver route then you create a template and specify the editable areas within that template. You then need something like Contribute which will cost you about £80 a piece to do the updates, one for each "updater".

As I mentioned earlier, a blog set-up using something such as WordPress which is my personal preference (and is open source) would be easier and better.

All the best,

Mark

[garyk]

Another option is if your host has the facility to provide SSI (server side includes), just means you can build your webpages with references to external text files that other users can simply create and upload to your webspace.

[Deano]

Hey,

Do you think I could get my customers to download the NVU wysiwig web editor? Then I could download the files from the server onto their computer which they could updatee and upload themselves?

Anyone any experience of using NVU?

Thanks,

Deano