On Jun 19, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Jeffrey Hergan wrote: > > On Jun 19, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Roger Howard wrote: > >> The question is, why is she coding regularly when she run's *a* site? Is it >> because she's adding new functionality, or does she have to edit HTML simply >> to update her content? >> >> If it's the latter, then I suspect what she needs isn't a better editor, but >> a decent CMS that will obviate the need to edit HTML on any regular basis. >> >> -R > > > She learned how to code to do her business web page. And she does not enjoy > it, and, in her words, she's lazy. She doesn't need to add functionality. > Just update content (music, video, photos, text).
Sounds like she needs a CMS, not a WYSIWYG editor (though they aren't mutually exclusive, you might need a WYSIWYG editor to change your CMS themes to update the look of your page templates). > > I don't know what CMS means. (Content management…script?) But right now she > uses an old windows machine to do her html because she says she knows of > nothing for mac. So, although she wants a WYSIWYG solution, I'm inclined to > think that something like BBedit and some sort of software or script that > will help her to simply drag and drop updates might be best. I hope that > helps to clarify her needs and wants. CMS = Content Management System. Wordpress, for instance. In essence you have templates, which define how your site's pages look, and you have content; when pages are viewed, the templates are merged with the relevant content to produce a page. Editing content in a CMS almost never involves coding at all - for instance, when a newspaper adds a new story to its site, or a blogger adds a new article to her blog, it's mainly about writing and editing content. A good CMS makes the process of maintaining a site entirely non-technical and, for most cases, involves no code. Think mail merge, but instead of inserting addresses into an Avery template, you're inserting content into a Web page template. Also, because the vast majority of Web CMS's these days are used (from an admin or content editor standpoint) from a Web browser, there are no Mac/Windows issues; updating a WordPress site, or a Drupal site, for instance, can be done from anywhere with a decent browser. > She will be occasionally adding new pages, and she'd rather do that the > quickest and easiest way for someone who really knows very little about web > site management and creation. If she's still editing HTML files by hand to add new pages or update content then she's 10 years behind the curve and making things much harder than needed. > > As always, thanks guys. I'd still like to hear what the best WYSIWYG app for > web site creation and management is. There are plenty of decent WYSIWYG editors - Dreamweaver, for instance - but they are almost never used to *maintain* a site anymore, except by those who have been doing things the same way for years. Most such editors are used to develop templates for a CMS or other Web application platform; this is a do-it-once kinda thing. > And learn whether she can import her old html. I'd also learn more about this > CMS you speak of. Migrating old HTML would generally be a one-time thing - depending on how it has been maintained, it could be entirely automated, or it could require a lot of copy/paste. If the existing HTML is consistently structured and can be logically mapped to the new CMS-based site, then it should be fairly straightforward. -R _______________________________________________ Osx-nutters mailing list [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters
