At 7:39 AM -0800 3/11/99, Steven J. Owens wrote:
> The request was for a system to let the staff in a company
>"publish documents to the web" using a unified style. I started
>to reply with a description of a database& html forms system that
>could be easily built to handle something like this. However,
>with some thought I realized that forms alone wouldn't provide a
>very friendly editing environment.
there are some big gaps here, steven - like platform, for one.
you can provide 'publishing' so that the end user never sees HTML - by
making everything that's 'content' live in a database - build the templates
for output. and actually, these forms can provide a more 'user-friendly'
interface than having to learn "code."
however, the best way to establish style is thru style guides, not thru
editor choice (editor will not reinforce style). your pr/communications
people should be familiar with style guides. of course, then you have to
decide what the penalties are for failing to follow the style guide. <smile>
re software - for mac i recommend BBEdit and for PCs, homesite. others on
the list have had good luck recently with additional pc shareware/freeware.
kathy
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