updating html pages client-side

Hi, i have recently designed a website for someone using dreamweaver.
The client wants a page that she can update every week with pictures etc. Is there a way she can update these pages without having to use dreamweaver. If so, do i have to use a totally different method such as php to create such a page
Thanks

Well, Macromedia have an application called Contribute... This allows users to add or modify content through a basic GUI.

The only other way really is to use some kind of PHP content mamagement system...

Yeah, wow! I didn't realise they were charging £116 for it now! It must be because Adobe have taken over...

This is a pretty simple concept that I implemented for a church site who wanted to do the updating.

Use php includes to include data html files where the content should go. Set them up with FTP and for HTML files to open with Notepad. They won't ever have to open the actual coded page, just the data file. Put in their information, save and it's updated. No more difficult then a CMS. If they mess the data file up, they send me an email I can fix it in a few minutes.

For photos, an extremely simple PHP script can be written to read every jpg from a directory and display the photos. They just have to drop the new photo in place and it get's read. If you need captions, just create a txt comma delimited file with the image filename and description. Read that file in with the script and parse the two out and display the image with description.

image1,description of image 1
image2,description of image 2
image3,description of image 3

With very little training of simple header and paragraph elements, they were up and running on the html files. Taught them very simple Irfanview mods for photographs, but they usually leave those up to me since the images often need more fixing then they want to bother with.

Yeah, that's along the lines of what I was thinking when I mentioned PHP. I don't know much about PHP at all though so I couldn't go into detail like that.

Nice post.

My two cents: I've used/implemented Macromedia Contribute for a client, and it STUNK. It's built-in browser rendered my (in my opinion) perfect code so poorly, that the client thought their site was broken.

In real browsers, it looked great of course, but Contribute had no idea what to do with clean, up-to-date code.

Thanks for the feed back. i appreciate it. im not very well clued up in terms of php but would i be right in saying that the php code can be implimented into my html code.
Does anyone know of any sites that have good tutorials on php.
Thanks again

Yes, php can be included in your html code.
You need to surround the php code with
<?php

?>
and for it to be actioned, you will either need to save your files with the extention of .php instead of .html or you tell your server, through an entry in the .htaccess file, (my prefered method) to process .html files for php code.

However, this thread seems to have gone off on a tangent from the original post. Using some kind of online browser based page editing software won't necessarily involve you in any understanding of php.

PHP Tutorials HERE.

Thanks for the feedback