Two people updating a site

[Jonathan Bridge]

Here's an example of what might suit you:

visit https://carrick.southuistselfcatering.co.uk and go to Tariff page.
The table of dates and prices on the right of each sub-page (2010, 2011
etc) is in an i-frame.

These pages are actually in a discrete website at subdomain
http://www.tariff.southuistselfcatering.co.uk which consists solely of
simple pages containing these tables. My wife deals with all the
bookings, so she uses NOF to update this subdomain only, which is quick
and easy and protects the wider site from inadvertent damage (or her
tinkering with my prose!) You can do a similar thing with an entire pages.

A similar principle can be used to allow a text file to be referenced
into html, which allows the text file to be edited by someone without
even needing to have a copy of NOF let alone knowing how to use it. They
would need to use an FTP client (even Windows Explorer can do this) to
upload the file, and that poses risks to the on-line file structure:
this is why I recommend using sub-domains for this method.

Both these methods are suitable where you have one person responsible
for the site as a whole, and another responsible for updating or
refining relatively simple content which does not affect layout.
Otherwise you need to be using very different software.



Jonathan Bridge
e: jonathan@biggarden.co.uk
w: biggarden.co.uk

On 15/09/2010 21:58, PhotoBob wrote:
> My boss wants to update our website from his PC, in addition to me
> updating the site. How can I keep the website in sync. e.g. My boss
> makes a change, how can I migrate the changes to my PC.
>
>

[Larry in AZ]

Waiving the right to remain silent, PhotoBob <PhotoBob.4hcm0b@no-
mx.forums.netobjects.com> said:

>
> My boss wants to update our website from his PC, in addition to me
> updating the site. How can I keep the website in sync. e.g. My boss
> makes a change, how can I migrate the changes to my PC.

Put the stuff he's going to update in an iframe which calls a html file,
for example, boss-changes.html

Have him write and save it as a plain ASCII text file, then he uploads it
to the server and overwrites his last change(s).

The iframe which you've created is a container for his stuff and always
calls the same file name. Nothing in NOF ever gets changed by him this
way.

You can do this with several iframes on different pages. The next one
could be boss-changes2.html.


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[Steve H]

I'm a bit surprised not to see nPower listed as a solution to this problem. Sure they would have to move back to NOF 10 but could be one solution to the problem. I'm still using nPower with some of my clients and I'm happy with it ans so are they.

Is nPower consider a dead product by Netobjects? As it has not been updated to work with NFO11.

[AAH]

the way i have it set up is NOF on 3 computers and like everyone said above make it into sections. i have 1/3 of my site on each comp all publishing to the same site. MAKE SURE U DONT name something the same it WILL mess up your whole site.

[Adendum]

I'm a bit surprised not to see nPower listed as a solution to this problem.....

Personally I think nPower is more of a problem than a solution. I used it for two years and got all my clients using it. Frankly, it cost me more time and effort than any other single area of web development. I switched to SurrealCMS and my clients absolutely love it's simplicity...as do I.