Web site maintenance by non-technical users? (take II)

["Hart, Geoff" <Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA>]

Another thought occurred to me, alluded to only briefly in my original post.
I mentioned the idea that any publishing effort should include a review
cycle (i.e., we are none of us immune to making mistakes, so we should have
our material edited before it goes online), and that suggests another
solution: hire an HTML-literate editor, or train one!

The advantage of this is twofold: First, your client doesn't need to bother
himself with the minutae of Web publishing. Second, you get a higher quality
of material published because at least some of the obvious mistakes are
fixed before anyone else every sees them. Given that you already established
have a relationship between your school's students and the client, the ideal
people to do this work would be students, perhaps as part of their
requirements for completing a class. That provides a third benefit:
real-world experience the students can put on a resume.

Sounds like a potential win-win-win situation to me!

--Geoff Hart, geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
(try ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca if you get no response)
Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada
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Pointe-Claire, Que., H9R 3J9 Canada 

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