We need to add a small updatable area to our website ? Like Yellbox.com but just for the website owner ?

Question

Hi

I have asked this question before but I can't understand why there isn't an easy answer.

We have a website, I wabt to add a small latest news area that can be updated by a html virgin. The suggestion I had was setting up a Nuke basing system, is there no easier way ?

There is stuff out there like Yellbox.com that allows the website users to add content surely there are similar things for the website owner to update?

Please help

The existing site is html and I just want to add a box that can be updated by the website owner who doesn't no html. Though I don't understand php and MySql basically because I have always built brochure type sites and not needed it.

Answer 1

This is an easy approach - I'm sure there are more advanced methods, but this is an option you can consider:

• Set up a latest news blog for the website owner.
• Add a feed digest to the website, which will pull in the rss feed from the blog (you can determine the length of the feed, full, or just a number of characters). I use http://feeddigest.com/ but there are other sites that offer a similar service.

This would allow the owner to go in and add his/her own content and publish it, and then have it automatically update on the website. (Updates on a timed basis, not immediate.)

Answer 2

The reason it's not easier is because there needs to be somewhere to store the content - and that means a database. And if the website owner isn't comfortable editing HTML, there needs to be something on top of the database that translates the content into HTML.

A simple blog might be the answer - depending on your hosting provider, you may find that they offer a one-click install of something like Wordpress which you could then easily integrate into your site.

Answer 3

It is fairly easy to do for a web developer to build as a custom feature. I don't know of anything prepackaged that would necessarily work, but I also don't know what platform you are running. Are you using PHP, .NET, Ruby, ASP, or something else?