what to do? advice

[kevinritt]

I'll try and keep this brief  . I built a website for a non profit community arts center. I have been maintaining it using CPanel/ Dreamweaver but I no longer have the time. The people in this organization do not have this type of background to update their pages. So my question is, how can I make areas, if not all of the site, easy for them to update. My first thought was a CMS but I don't think the site is large enohgh to warrent that. Now I'm thinking of creating files for the web pages and storing them in the database and then using a form to update the pages. For example, for the calendar page, I would have a table in the database with the fields: id, content. Once logged into the page, they can edit the text. Before I do all this work - am I going in the right direction? Any help/ suggestions would be greatly appreciated. (I hope this makes sense)

[mwarren77]

Dynamic pages are much easier to deal with in sites that change often or periodically.

Using Joomla is easy and functional however I have found that most non-technical people have difficulties using CMS systems like that.

 

I have written many sites that use a simple mysql backend and fckeditor.

That is my recommendation.

[chronister]

You can also look into an AJAX edit in place script. There are many out there..  I found one that was pretty easy to implement. Tied to a mysql db, and the information was easily editable right on the page. I am still working on combining it with a really good rich text editor so a person does not have to use any HTML code to do what they want.

 

I am trying to find a RTE that I can modify and use it to apply classes, and styles to items rather than stuff like font tags, bold tags and such.

 

I had the base system with a rich text editor applied to it in a couple hours (most of that was learning curve and combining 2 things that were "unrelated"), but once the first was done others were easy.

 

I would look into that kind of thing.

 

Nate