Best way to isolate text editing from site structure

[Top Spin]

I am in the process of setting up a web site for my small business. I
have a very good admin who is good with computers. I would like to
have her learn enough FrontPage so that she can be the webmaster. I
would like her to take care of everything except writing the actual
text for each page.

I would write the text for most of the pages and I would prefer to do
it in Word. Is this possible? Can she set up the overall site
structure in a FrontPage document that has links to a set of Word
documents that have the actual text for each page?

Let's say I have a home page with some general information and a list
of hyperlinks down the left side, something like:

Overview
Location
Services
Resources
References
Contact Information

Each of these will be hyperlinks that will take the viewer to a
different page which might have additional links to sub topics and so
on.

Can we have a set of Word documents named "Home.doc", "Overview.doc",
"Location.doc", etc., and then some master FrontPage document that
links them all together to create the web site?

That way, I could edit the "source documents" without learning
FrontPage or messing with the structure.

If this is not possible, I would appreciate suggestions for another
way to achieve the separation of the site structure from the source
text.

Thanks

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

You "could" do that but it is not recommended
- Users will need MS Word to see any .doc files
- Word save as .htm creates cumbersome html pages
- Word is not a web page creator
- The FP web will probably be corrupted by files changes outside of FP

Your FP web developer could convert your word files into .htm files and File Import them into FP
One way of imported Word files into HTM (w/o all the MS Word formatting) is shown at
http://sbrenjoy.bizland.com/frontpage/word.htm




| I am in the process of setting up a web site for my small business. I
| have a very good admin who is good with computers. I would like to
| have her learn enough FrontPage so that she can be the webmaster. I
| would like her to take care of everything except writing the actual
| text for each page.
|
| I would write the text for most of the pages and I would prefer to do
| it in Word. Is this possible? Can she set up the overall site
| structure in a FrontPage document that has links to a set of Word
| documents that have the actual text for each page?
|
| Let's say I have a home page with some general information and a list
| of hyperlinks down the left side, something like:
|
| Overview
| Location
| Services
| Resources
| References
| Contact Information
|
| Each of these will be hyperlinks that will take the viewer to a
| different page which might have additional links to sub topics and so
| on.
|
| Can we have a set of Word documents named "Home.doc", "Overview.doc",
| "Location.doc", etc., and then some master FrontPage document that
| links them all together to create the web site?
|
| That way, I could edit the "source documents" without learning
| FrontPage or messing with the structure.
|
| If this is not possible, I would appreciate suggestions for another
| way to achieve the separation of the site structure from the source
| text.
|
| Thanks
|
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| For email, use Usenet-20031220 at spamex.com

 

[Top Spin]

You "could" do that but it is not recommended
- Users will need MS Word to see any .doc files
- Word save as .htm creates cumbersome html pages
- Word is not a web page creator
- The FP web will probably be corrupted by files changes outside of FP

Your FP web developer could convert your word files into .htm files and File Import them into FP
One way of imported Word files into HTM (w/o all the MS Word formatting) is shown at
http://sbrenjoy.bizland.com/frontpage/word.htm

So how do diverse companies manage their web site content? Is there a
recommended method for allowing non-technical people to create and
maintain page content (text and basic formatting) without knowing HTML
or modifying the FrontPage structure?

I am just trying to create a method where one person (webmaster)
maintains the website structure and one or more others (principals)
own the content without making life too complicated for either.

Consider a law firm that offers services in various fields, such as
business, finance, taxation, technology, etc. For example:

http://www.ssd.com/what/

Each service is managed by a different department, staffed by
different attorneys, and may be located in different cities. But the
company has a single web site. It is certainly managed by one person
(or department) but there are specific pages for each department or
service. The content for each department will need to be written by
someone from that department, but that content will be assimilated by
the webmaster to create the site.

How do they do that? What's the best method? How do they get the
content from each department to the webmaster to be assimilated into
the web site?

The easiest approach, it would seem to me, would be for the content
(text) for each page to be kept in a separate document which could be
placed on a shared disk. If a department wanted to change the content
on their page, they would simple edit that document and then notify
the webmaster to update the site.

Ideally, the master FrontPage docment would contain the controls for
the site structure plus links to these content documents. All the
webmaster would need to do would be to run some program that would
merge or imbed the content documents to form the complete website and
then upload that.

I would hope that the content documents could be in some format that
is similar to Word so the principals need not learn yet another
program. Only basic formatting would be required: paragraphs, fonts,
bold, italics, underlining, lists, and simple tables.

Thanks

 

[MD WebsUnlimited.com]

Hi,

SharePoint TeamServices

FP3 DWT

 

[Top Spin]

Hi,

SharePoint TeamServices

FP3 DWT

Thanks, but I was looking for a simple solution. I didn't want to
install a whole new system.

It seems to me that there ought to be a simple way to separate the
text content from the website structure so that different people can
edit it without the chance that they will mess up the controls.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Or they write a Database application to feed the page content




| On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:54:17 -0600, "MD WebsUnlimited.com"
|
| >Hi,
| >
| >SharePoint TeamServices
| >
| >FP3 DWT
|
| Thanks, but I was looking for a simple solution. I didn't want to
| install a whole new system.
|
| It seems to me that there ought to be a simple way to separate the
| text content from the website structure so that different people can
| edit it without the chance that they will mess up the controls.
|
| --
| For email, use Usenet-20031220 at spamex.com

 

[MD WebsUnlimited.com]

Or use SSI (Server Side Includes)