simple way for owner to edit one part of one page

unwashed potato! · 24 Oct 2010 at 15:18

customer would like to be able to quickly add a couple of paragraphs and heading once a week to a latest news style page. it needs to be very basic just to allow her to say the date/heading, then paste the text and done.

currently the file is being sent to me then i have to manually update. but this isn't so good as she's relying on my having the time and being in a place to update the file when it needs to be done asap.

any ideas of what to use?

3dcandy · 24 Oct 2010 at 16:51

wordpress or any cms could do this....

unwashed potato! · 24 Oct 2010 at 17:12

bit much for wordpress as it's such a small amount that needs to be edited. i've seen suggestions on here before for what i need buy sadly i've forgotten them

3dcandy · 24 Oct 2010 at 18:08

without some sort of cms this would be difficult to do. you could just make the news part a wordpress page, like a blog though. Otherwise I really can't see an easier way

AHarvey · 24 Oct 2010 at 18:22

give them FTP access to one folder only.

take the bit that needs to be edited and change it to a PHP include.

They can edit the file and it'll update the site without the risk of effecting anything else.

She wouldn't even need to edit the html, just show her which bits to change with comments

simisker · 24 Oct 2010 at 19:30

Unify might be right up the proverbial - lets them edit and add stuff on their page in their browser. Very useful for the tech-naive.

http://unify.unitinteractive.com/

BFCTom · 24 Oct 2010 at 20:03

This will do the trick http://www.cushycms.com/

lemonade · 24 Oct 2010 at 20:03

you could use a more simple and more lightweight cms like http://get-simple.info/ rather than a fully loaded cms like wp.

roger that · 25 Oct 2010 at 13:22

I've used TinyMCE with success on a few sites, just a bit of javascript and it's free.

http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/

ImMrChris · 7 Nov 2010 at 16:06

CushyCMS would do that i've used it a few times for my clients

http://www.cushycms.com/

All you need to do is add a class to the div that you want them to edit then give them access through your admin account @ cushycms nice and simple there is a free version too