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blackqueen
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Hi all,
This is an interesting one that maybe one of you bright sparks can help with!  I have built a website for a singer-songwriter friend using Microsoft Frontpage. So far so good, she's dead pleased. Currently, when she has any gig changes she emails me and I do the updates. All cool, I'm quite happy to do that for her but she now said she wants to do the updates herself but has had no experience of doing it. So I'm currently looking at giving her Microsoft Frontpage and trying to give her a crash course in that as well as the intricacies of ftp file uploading (!). Oh, and I think she's on a Mac!!! 
I wondered if there was something, some sort of program, that she could use to edit her pages, maybe some sort of online web page editor? I have no idea what I am talking about but am hoping someone on here does! I did a Google search and found some things but was easily confused and they all seemed to be expensive. Naturally, I am looking at as little outlay as possible. 
Anyone help or advise please?
Many thanx.
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Sam
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There are programs that will let you do that but the easiest way might be to create a Google pages account (Google's online site builder), let her place all the gig details on there (it doesn't involve any code editing or file uploading) and load that page into the existing site with an iframe.
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blackqueen
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Hi Sam,
Thanx for taking the time and trouble to post. That sounds really interesting - I will check that out.
Now, to be even dumber, can I just ask what you mean by an iframe please? Sorry, not too good with terminology. Probably know what you mean but need to clarify. Bear of small brain and all that!
[doh!] 
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Sam
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An iframe (or inline frame) is a window within a web page which contains another web page. There are some examples and a code generator here:
http://www.htmlbasix.com/iframe.shtml
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blackqueen
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Wow! Brilliant! Sam, you are a star!!! Thanx a million... x
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Sam
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Wiggster
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If she can't get her head round updating pages using iFrames or html/frontpage, then I suggest you use cute news
It's a basic content management system, that allows you to create content, and then which ever page you add it too, it will update the relevant page.
For example, If i had a news page, I could have a category in cute news as news and then type in loads of news, such as gig information etc, and then in news.html, just add the code form cute news.
I know I've not explained that well, but it allows you to only focus on text, not images etc. It works similarly to a php include. So you can write information about anything (news, gigs, blog etc). Then in the page you simply just 'include the text you wrote about news/gigs/blog'
If I have time, I'll install and try and give a short demonstration/tutorial, so If anone else is interested, they can use it. I know several of my friends bands have used it, so when they are on tour, they can login and just write in what they have done, v=click submit and it automatically updates their pages.
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