>My question is this: I need some strategic direction in creating web pages >that my customers can update. Its simple enough to create a database to pull >items out of and place into a predetermined cell. But what about when the >customer wants to change font faces, sizes or colors? Wants to insert a >picture? How do you handle that?
More ... I have used a kind of 'pseudo-HTML'. If the user wants to insert an image, you can have them enter details such as: its filename, its short description (for the 'alt' attribute) and whether it is positioned on the left or right or center (which determines wrap-around, as I don't wrap round if the image is centered). This creates code that can look something like ... as we see here.[reception.jpg, The reception desk, right] Our friendly personnel will ... When you pull this out of the database, you can check for the '[' and ']' pair and then create the image code. If the user is likely to use '[', then just find any characters that they don't use in their text. I used a similar set-up for links. The advantages are: 1. the user doesn't have to remember what kinds of quotes to use and what the attribute names are, so maintenance is easier. 2. you can add this stuff using a button in the form that will prompt for the 'fields'. 3. all the images to be included in the text are in their own subdirectory, so you can include a 'select' to pull them up into the user's code or even show clickable thumbnails. 4. you may be able to do some checking on image sizes before loading and reduce large images to a manageable size for the block that they are going into (but this might be beyond VBScript and ASP). Please note that all this a pretty poor substitute for a 'grown-up' CMA, but it is workable. Regards, David ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
