Website Management. Ideas?

BoomAM

BoomAM

BoomAM

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Hi.
Im considering redesigning our ancient school website.
At the moment, we have the main page, which has loads of links to sub pages and department pages.
What i want to do is create a website that is 'cleaner looking', with a menu bar on one side, but, then have it so each departments part of the website is however they want it, with just the menu bar that i select on the main page being there. So basically i suppose, a frame.
I'd also like if it were possible to add content through a web interface on it, rarther than having to FTP everytime. Prehaps having it so that each department can only edit their parts of the site, so they can update their bits as needed as well.

So basically, can anyone tell me if that is even possible to do, and if so, what software would be recommended to use?
 
BoomAM said:
Hi.
Im considering redesigning our ancient school website.
At the moment, we have the main page, which has loads of links to sub pages and department pages.
What i want to do is create a website that is 'cleaner looking', with a menu bar on one side, but, then have it so each departments part of the website is however they want it, with just the menu bar that i select on the main page being there. So basically i suppose, a frame.
I'd also like if it were possible to add content through a web interface on it, rarther than having to FTP everytime. Prehaps having it so that each department can only edit their parts of the site, so they can update their bits as needed as well.

So basically, can anyone tell me if that is even possible to do
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this is very possible but requires php knowledge. Bascially you would have user accounts and give when someone signs up you (or whoever the admin is) then assigns them a level, such as Science, maths etc. then on the maths pages have php check if maths level by doing something like: if($session->maths)

To have it so you can put text on the page you will need a form that stores the information on a database that is then read by php.

Try this link: http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/php_coding/

it has loads of php tutorials for what you want.
 
ok, now none of them are even remotely easy/quick for me to learn.
And im taking it that the webspace will need to support PHP/ASP?(Which im not sure if it does or not?).
 
How easy would it be to create a blog site?
Basically allowing the news page at the very least to be added to like a blog, with the site of the site being relativly static?
 
Mark M said:
Blogs are a doddle :)
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They sure are, check out Wordpress and/or Nucleus.

(Providing your server supports php and MySQL)

In your case though, if the server did support it I'd have a wonder at a CMS, maybe php-fusion, you can strip out the download, photo albums etc and create your own theme to go with the school colours or whatever. Theres a demo site for loads of php-fusion over at OpenSourceCMS along with other CMS sites.

If you do go with the fusion, theres a handbook for it here.
 
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Seems like a lot of effort and learning on my part. I simply dont have the time to do that unfortunatelly. (+lazyness:p).
 
BoomAM said:
Seems like a lot of effort
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Just a bit yea, not much learning though, I'm on my 3rd CMS now and I still know nothing about php.

If I wasn't so busy doing Photoshop stuff for others, and finishing my site I'd offer to do change the core files etc for your needs.
 
WotDa said:
Just a bit yea, not much learning though, I'm on my 3rd CMS now and I still know nothing about php.

If I wasn't so busy doing Photoshop stuff for others, and finishing my site I'd offer to do change the core files etc for your needs.
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Im hoping to find out off the hosts what standards the webspace supports, so when ive got that information, i can start planning what it is i want to do with the website.
 
Unfortunatelly it looks like our host only does static pages. :(.
Are there ways to make websites easy to update for me with static pages?
 
Seconded. If your paying anything for you're webhosting and not getting some kind of PHP support then you're being ripped off
 
Are there any websites or free programs about that'd allow me to lay down the base of the website quite quickly, and looking quite good, with just HTML?
I do have Dreamweaver & Frontpage, but Dreamweaver i hate and Frontpage is a little antiquated.
 
http://phpnuke.org/

thats pretty retard proof and has a lot of scope for skinning it. good 10 mins to learn it :)

all you need is a header (html for a banner at the top)
and a footer (html for the stuff after the content at the bottom of the page)

plus it comes with loads of skins and they are downloadable too.

if its a schoolmweb server its likely to only use microsoft technologies. asp etc. probably not asp.net either :(

if you want a cms then id look around on http://php.resourceindex.com/

they have some cool scripts on there.

Russ.
 
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