Macromedia Contribute using dreamweaver templates? Scott Thornton, Programmer Application Development Information Services and Telecommunications Hunter-New England Area Health Service Phone RNH +61 2 49236078 Fax +61 2 49236076
[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 21/03/2005 2:22:29 pm >>> I design sites to be standards compliant (usually XHTML1.0 Strict). This is ~supposed~ to make maintenance easier, and it is for me since I know what I'm doing (or at least, I think I do) However, I get many prospects who want to update sites themselves. In many cases, these are very small businesses with just one or two people, none of which have any idea about (x)HTML. Most of them have very small budgets, so they can't afford a complete "CMS" type setup (and it's not the kind of thing I can supply) and they tend to only want a small site (a few pages) for next to nothing. Is it just me, or is this a common dilemma? Apart from abandoning standards compliance (not an option as far as I'm concerned), setting the site up in HTML4.01 Transitional and letting amateurs wreak havoc with Micro$oft <FONT>Plague, what options are there to design standards compliant sites, letting clients maintain them and still stay within web standards? Yes, I know there's things like XStandard, and the confusingly named FCKEditor. However, these (as far as I know) require server side scripting and the client would have to have write-access to the files on the server (or a database driven site), all of which increases the cost. What other options are there, apart from complex, expensive CMS setups (or forgetting about standards)? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
