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Subject:Re: Web site maintenance by non-technical users From:"Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L -at- LISTS -dot- RAYCOMM -dot- COM Date:Tue, 09 Sep 2003 11:18:11 -0600
On 8 Sep 2003 at 13:52, Cynthia Armistead wrote:
> 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.
How about a Wiki? You go to the web page, choose Edit, and type
away. There are a few conventions (markups) that can be used for
formatting, but they are simple. The upside is that anyone can edit a
Wiki page. The downside is that anyone can edit a Wiki page.
