church webpage
for over a year now i've been slated for doing our churches web page.
about 8 months ago I presented to the board my vision (which costs about 15$ per year for the domain name) and told them i would build them anything they wanted under the following conditions:
1. they identify their audience(s) and put mechanisms in place to determine our effictivents of reaching them with the webpage medium.
2. they identify what our content should be
3. they identify and maintain a flow of information extenal of the devloper and commit to keeping the content fresh.
4. the developement is to be documented and cross trained so it does not die if the deveoper (me) is not availble or moves on (like countless chuch webpages in the past)
well, we've almost gotten 1 and 2, and 3 is pretty slim since our secretary is leaving, and 4 is up to me. so i've started as of FRIDAY!
i'm working with another guy doing minimulistic (yet awesome) graphics and page design, and i've comitted to doing a web wysiwyg editor with possibly a dataase backend for a content management system (although version 1 will probably be a straight, flat, html file system with image upload capability by administrators - in adition to the full ftp access put in place.)
There are nice free asp cms systems, but they are all too heavy for what i want, so i'm writing my own stripped down one in the inturest of my minimulistic approach: public sees html files, no scripting anywhere,so anyone can maintain the webpage, just read html file, edit html file, write html file with an asp wrapper for secuirty.
i've reviewed richtextbox.com and it's VERY powerful, yet the price is WAY beyond the budget.
SO that brings me to the coolest tool i've found recently. fckEditor - opensource strikes again. check it out. very cool stuff.
about 8 months ago I presented to the board my vision (which costs about 15$ per year for the domain name) and told them i would build them anything they wanted under the following conditions:
1. they identify their audience(s) and put mechanisms in place to determine our effictivents of reaching them with the webpage medium.
2. they identify what our content should be
3. they identify and maintain a flow of information extenal of the devloper and commit to keeping the content fresh.
4. the developement is to be documented and cross trained so it does not die if the deveoper (me) is not availble or moves on (like countless chuch webpages in the past)
well, we've almost gotten 1 and 2, and 3 is pretty slim since our secretary is leaving, and 4 is up to me. so i've started as of FRIDAY!
i'm working with another guy doing minimulistic (yet awesome) graphics and page design, and i've comitted to doing a web wysiwyg editor with possibly a dataase backend for a content management system (although version 1 will probably be a straight, flat, html file system with image upload capability by administrators - in adition to the full ftp access put in place.)
There are nice free asp cms systems, but they are all too heavy for what i want, so i'm writing my own stripped down one in the inturest of my minimulistic approach: public sees html files, no scripting anywhere,so anyone can maintain the webpage, just read html file, edit html file, write html file with an asp wrapper for secuirty.
i've reviewed richtextbox.com and it's VERY powerful, yet the price is WAY beyond the budget.
SO that brings me to the coolest tool i've found recently. fckEditor - opensource strikes again. check it out. very cool stuff.
3 Comments:
You might also take a look at TinyMCE, which I'm rather partial to. If you ever upgrade to Mambo or the like, it'll be familiar. Actually, you might like Etomite. It's powerful but easy to use for a non-developer, and is not as overkill as something like Mambo. Upgrade path appears to be a little odd but the current version is great... I just used it for Nadine's website and was pleased.
tinymce is on my list, and i have considered giving the end user the choice of editors.
i'll check out etomite.
etomite is PHP!
granted, that's great if your host is setup for it.
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