Hello Janine,

I really appreciate your teaching skills in Total Training for Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. Thank you for helping people like me learn Web design!

I am designing a site for someone who wants to make frequent text updates on a page. How can I set them up to make the updates from within the Web site, similar to a blog (they don’t know Dreamweaver)?

Can you help me?

Thank you,
Rebekah

Hi Rebekah,

Thank you for your kind words about my video.

By using the most advanced features in Dreamweaver to create a dynamic site with PHP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, or a similar technology, you can create a Web interface so someone can update your site the way they’d update a blog. But I have to warn you, this is a complex way to create a Web site. Blogs make it seem easy, but the underlying technology that makes blogs work is quite complex to create.

An alternative exists, however, that may solve your problem with much less effort and still make things easy for your friend to update the text on the site: consider using Adobe Contribute. This program is much less expensive than Dreamweaver and designed to make it easy for anyone to “contribute” to a Web site created with Dreamweaver. You can learn more at www.adobe.com/products/contribute/.

I hope that helps and I wish you all the best,
Janine

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