RE: Web site maintenance by non-technical users

["Darren Barefoot" <darren -at- darrenbarefoot -dot- com>]

I have a similar scenario for a little pro bono work I'm doing. It's for
a non-profit organization, and we wanted board members to be able to
make simple updates to the site without my assistance. I'm installing
Movable Type (www.movabletype.org) to serve as the front "news" page of
their site. That way they can post events, program changes, etc. from a
simple Web interface without faffing about with FTP, etc. MT has the
added advantage of generating a single archival page for each "item".

Of course, if they want to make profound changes to the site (such as
adding a new section), they need my help. It's not quite ready for
primetime, but if you're interested in seeing it when it's ready, send
me an email. If I get more than a few emails, I'll just post it to this
list when it's done. Thanks. DB.

Darren Barefoot
Words. Words. Words.
http://www.darrenbarefoot.com

> 
> I'm a technical writing student. I'm taking a web design 
> course. Our team 
> project involves redesigning the composition program web site for the 
> school. The site owner is not technical and doesn't wish to 
> change that. 
> She wants to be able to update the site using MS Word, never 
> encountering 
> HTML code. It does need to be useable by users on any 
> platform, so simply 
> putting everything up as Word documents isn't going to work.
> 
> She doesn't want to know about FTP or anything similar - she 
> wants to be 
> able to edit site pages and save them just like any other 
> document. That 
> part, at least, I can accomplish by mapping a network drive for her.
>