I bought Total Training for Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection: Essentials Bundle and am about to finish the second Dreamweaver Disk. In this course you didn’t cover how to make a “back door” for clients to edit text and photos. I went to your website and had a chat with one of your sales reps and was wondering if that was covered in your “Creating an update page” lesson of your Dreamweaver CS3 Advanced DVD ROM? And also what else is covered (I am new at Web design and don’t know what things like Spry and Cold Fusion are…)?

Sincerely,
Brian

Hi Brian,

Thanks for buying my video.

I’m afraid there is no ‘back door’ feature  in Dreamweaver to make it easy for other people to edit a site you create. There are two possible ways you could achieve this goal.

The simple solution is a program called Adobe Contribute, which is designed so that people who don’t know Dreamweaver can easily make simple updates to pages and images. If you have the Web Suite you should have received Contribute so you can see how it works. If not, you can download a trial version from the Adobe site.

The other solution is to a create dynamic site by using PHP or ColdFusion or ASP.NET or a similar technology and also create an admin section that someone can use to update the pages of the site through a browser.

Many blogging programs (such as WordPress or TypePad) as well as CMS programs (such as Joomla, Drupal, or Expression Engine) include admin tools in their systems. Creating a site like these yourself is complex, and you may want to consider using one of these programs instead.

I hope that helps and I wish you all the best with your Web site,
Janine

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