Re: Site Design Strategy

what you are looking for is a CMS system.... something like www.plone.org also there is an rich text HTML area which you can use on your site, check this out: http://www.solmetra.com/en/disp.php/en_products/en_spaw/en_spaw_intro it might help hope it does. Angelo Greg Donald wrote: >On 6/2/05, asinning <andrew@learningware.com> wrote: > > >>At the crux of this post is the following question: How do you develop >>a very robust, dynamic web-site, but also allow non-technical people to >>contribute? There must be an easier way. >> >> > >Use a framework like MVC. Your PHP code would be seperate from your >design templates. Smarty is a heavy-weight for templating. I use >eval() for most of my own hobby project templating. > > > >>1) Non-technical people in the company need to be able to build pages, >>and they should be able to post their pages without bothering me.We >>have a tech-support person who will be able to help them, but she has >>zero programming knowledge and only a superficial understanding of >>HTML. >> >> > >Sounds like a CMS. I use this web based HTML editor when I need to >let designers play in my projects: >http://www.htmlarea.com/ > > > >> The page that gets loaded in depends on the parameters of >>query-string. It's very simple, if the query string reads >>"?target=products/gsp", then my php will look for a site-relative >>document such as "products/gsp.htm" OR "products/gsp/index.hml". Then, >>this document will get "included" as the content in my "shell". >> >> > >You might look into Apache's mod_rewrite to help clean those URLs up. >Search engines love nice clean URLs if that sort of thing matters to >you. > > > >