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What is the best way to design a website so that someone with no html skills can update and edit it?

  • I usually use Dreamweaver for web design, but it needs to be more simple than that. A client wants to be able to make small changes and add info to the site himself in the future. Any suggestions for software or an online service that would give me design freedom and control, yet be easy for him to edit? It would be best if it is cheap or free and it has to be able to run on a mac and a pc. Thanks in advance!

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    Yes! You'll just have to learn something new =] A server-side scripting language, such as PHP, can be used to add an interface where someone with absolutely no knowledge of website languages can update their site. IE: A news section. There's an admin panel, where a textarea box for space to write in. Hit submit, data sent to database, PHP displays it on the news section. You up to it? Good Luck! If you need further assistance/advice, feel free to contact me.

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Well.. I think wordpress and blogger are best option to do this. If you really like do more simple these are best option, in wordpress there are lot of options which you can easily create, edit or add something more according your requirement As blogger is concern it has less option then wordpress but you can download a lot of temples to modify this or some changes. both of platform are able to run on mac or other OS. so you can go through these services.

Jennifer

ummm webs.com i guess??

pop meh

If the client wants to edit it then they should expect to encounter some formatting code, it's the nature of the thing. Perhaps your best bet though is to use as much external CSS as possible so the client sees more text than code when looking at the HTML. On a side note, I had to edit code once which was generated from Dreamweaver and the code was complete slop.

Toad

Sounds like you would need a CMS or something like that. WordPress is one example. If you hadn't said cheap or free, I would have said Adobe Contribute. It's designed to integrate with Dreamweaver and I believe that what you want is exactly it's main purpose.

Empire539

Cushy cms is just what the doctor ordered... http://www.cushycms.com/en Add a bit of unobtrusive code to each page, and the client can edit the text to his heart's content, and never see a line of code.

stone

Komposer works on both and is free. Still, you'll need to spend some time with the client and educating him on how to do the updates. http://kompozer.net/

Hugh

weebly, webstart, yola are good options, look at this source there are a good web builder application listed here

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