Web Design Help Needed

Me | 4-12-2002 | Me

[paul544]

Ok, I have a project at work. I have pretty decent HTML, CSS and JS knowledge, but I have an issue.

Does anyone know of a script or method that would enable someone to update a web page using a web based interface, instead of modifying the code and then uploading? What I have to do is create a web site that has updates on ongoing issues. Now we need a couple people to be able the status of those issues. I would like to do it by having them access a web page, submit the update and somehow update the original page. We have limited access to the server so constant uploads with updated pages is going to be an issue.

I have a feeling this is going to involve ASP, but was wondering if anyone would have any ideas.
Thanks

[SGCOS]

I thought that was the refresh button is for.

[jbstrick]

look here....

MovableType

Email me if you need help.

[Huck]

A threaded discussion would work. Or else wouldn't you need a database-driven solution? You might want to go to some of the javascript sites out there and search for some free code. They might have a way of doing it.

[proxy_user]

Basically, you want to have administrators update a database through an HTTP interface, and then have the contents of the database reflected in the web pages sent out to normal users.

There are many ways to do this. On Unix, the most modern way would be to use J2EE, and have a web server, an app server, and an SQL database on the back end. The interface to the web would be handled by servlets and JSPs, and they would communicate with Enterprise Java Beans that update the database. The outgoing Web pages would be generated by servlets that read the database.

I do this for a living, and have to admit the commercial products are designed for big companies with large budgets and staffs. It would cost a substantial amount of money to implement this with what I use at work, which is the iPlanet Web server, the BEA Weblogic app server, and Oracle on expensive Sun machines. But there are small, inexpensive open-source solutions such as JBoss and MYSQL, which run well on small Linux or Sun platforms.

Microsoft probably also has a way to do this, but I don't work in that area.

[shadowman99]

You might consider a content management system like Plain Black. It's open source and runs on Apache. I would allow you and any trusted administrators to publish and update via web interface.

Another option is Slash. Slash is great for a site that will have many news updates and has built in BBS features.

[wafflehouse]

i have written webpages in PERL, sorta like this site, where you have registered users, and postings..
you also have admin accounts, who are able to edit all postings or delete them, and also manage users, passwords, etc.
all this thru a web browser.. but it was written on unix..
freepmail me if this is the kinda thing your interested in

(ASP is for wimps :-)

[sigSEGV]

You could always use PHP instead of ASP. In order to do what you want to do, you would best be advised to create a database. PHP has great hooks into MySQL.

A fairly decent starting point: PHP/MySQL Tutorial

There's also prebuilt solutions out there like PHP Nuke and Slashcode.

Best of all, they're free.

[NonZeroSum]

What he said. Moveable Type. What you're describing is blogging software, which is readily available, judging by the explosion of weblogs in the last few months.

[Question_Assumptions]

Take a look at TWiki. There are other "wiki"s out there, as well but this is one of the best.

[paul544]

Thank you all so much. I am going through all the suggestions you have made. I am sure I will find a solution in here. Thanks again. I'm sure some of you will be getting freepmail.

[evilC]

bump

[r-t-f-m]

How about web page updates by email?? Try FlexWindow. I haven't tried it yet but it looks like just the thing to allow clients who haven't got any HTML-savvy to dynamically update their own pages.