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[Sal]

I have a website that I created for a non-profit organization and they want
to update information on the site. Is there a way I can display a document
that they created in the middle of my web page without creating a hiperlink
and when the document changes so does the information on the webpage without
having to pubish the site again?

 

[Ronx]

What type of document will the non-profit create? And have you discussed how
will they upload it?

If the document is a complete web page then the easiest way to place it in
your page is by using an iframe. If the document is not a web page, then
possibly the only solution is a link to the document.

Or use Server Side Includes - again the non-profit will have to know how to
create a suitable web page for use as the included page.


Other solutions would be:

a database system - the non-profit updates a database which is used to
populate a page in your website. This requires server side scripting,
which may be complex depending on the typical information your clients
upload.

A Content Management System (CMS) such as Contentseed
(http://contentseed.com)

A Blog - blogs can be made to blend in with your own site if your host
supports the technology used for the blog (asp, asp.NET, PHP etc.) and you
have the skills to style or skin the pages involved.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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[Sal]

I was thinking that they would create the document with either Word or
Publisher and saving the document as a HTML. They will then upload the
document to the web server. This way they will only affect the information
part of the web page and not the menu's or other parts of the web page. Will
this work with iframe?

 

[Tom Willett]

And, how will they upload it?
--
Tom [Pepper] Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage Since 1997
---------------------------
:I was thinking that they would create the document with either Word or
: Publisher and saving the document as a HTML. They will then upload the
: document to the web server. This way they will only affect the
information
: part of the web page and not the menu's or other parts of the web page.
Will
: this work with iframe?
:
:
: "Ronx" wrote:
:
: > What type of document will the non-profit create? And have you discussed
how
: > will they upload it?
: >
: > If the document is a complete web page then the easiest way to place it
in
: > your page is by using an iframe. If the document is not a web page,
then
: > possibly the only solution is a link to the document.
: >
: > Or use Server Side Includes - again the non-profit will have to know how
to
: > create a suitable web page for use as the included page.
: >
: >
: > Other solutions would be:
: >
: > a database system - the non-profit updates a database which is used to
: > populate a page in your website. This requires server side scripting,
: > which may be complex depending on the typical information your clients
: > upload.
: >
: > A Content Management System (CMS) such as Contentseed
: > (http://contentseed.com)
: >
: > A Blog - blogs can be made to blend in with your own site if your host
: > supports the technology used for the blog (asp, asp.NET, PHP etc.) and
you
: > have the skills to style or skin the pages involved.
: > --
: > Ron Symonds
: > Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
: > http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp
: >
: > Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
: >
: >
: >
: > : > > I have a website that I created for a non-profit organization and they
: > > want
: > > to update information on the site. Is there a way I can display a
: > > document
: > > that they created in the middle of my web page without creating a
: > > hiperlink
: > > and when the document changes so does the information on the webpage
: > > without
: > > having to pubish the site again?
: >
: >

 

[Ronx]

Using HTML output from Word might work with the iFrame, but the result would
be a bloated page. If there were any images involved these would also have
to be uploaded with the page - one problem here is that Word places images
in a folder and the complete folder has to be uploaded or there will be
broken links in the uploaded page.
Publisher is a non-starter, in my opinion, since it places TEXT in images -
and like Word, these images go into the folder that has be uploaded.

--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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[Sal]

They will upload the document to the ftp server to a folder that they can
save to.