Customer makes instant new web pages?

[Jon_King]

I have a potential customer that tells me that they currently have a method where by they use some sort of template to enter predefined type and table portions of a web page, scan and add a photo, push a button and viola' - instant new web page. I'm over simplifying here for brevity, but you get the idea... what is the likely way or ways this is being accomplished? This is a fairly sophisticated customer-end tool that creates and uploads pages. The site is asp driven.

[korkus2000]

I have created these types of content management systems in ASP. The template pages are either created through the file system object or saved completely in a database. I prefer the file system object method because it is much more spider friendly.

You would create a backend administration area where you have a page laid out. In the spaces for pictures there is an upload box. For content areas there are text feilds. Your design has to be fluid and all of the graphic navigational areas need to be placed in includes to be called by the new pages. I usually keep the navigational link info in the database because they are hard to update physically while your pages are in production.

It really isn't hard and can be done in any of the server-side scripting languages. It is just a lot of work.

[RossWal]

I prefer the file system object method because it is much more spider friendly.

This strikes me as odd Korkus, could you kindly explain? Do spiders crawl physical directories?

TIA

[andreasfriedrich]

This strikes me as odd Korkus, could you kindly explain? Do spiders crawl physical directories?

Do I detect sarcasm here? ;)

[sun818]

Korkus, by File System Object(FSO) method, are you referring to static HTML pages being generated?

[korkus2000]

The FSO allows me to generate asp files physically on the server instead of using querystring urls because of a database.

sun818 - Yes

[NameNick]

The template pages are either created through the file system object or saved completely in a database. I prefer the file system object method because it is much more spider friendly.

Why not use a hybrid that is database driven and generates files. All data are stored in the database which makes it easy to handle the data.

If something changes, just a click and all files are changed. Backup and transferring the data can be done without downloading/uploading a mass of files.

NN

[korkus2000]

It is a hybrid. I create asp files that have database components. I am just not using one page to do it all.

[martinibuster]

I used a cms program, actually a blogger program, to create a NEWS page that the non-profit admin could update herself. I stripped the pre-made template of unneeded includes, and dropped the code into a td cell. The admin makes the changes which fill up the td and voila, an instantly updated web page.

[RossWal]

instead of using querystring urls because of a database.

Ah! The spider has an aversion to querystrings? No sarcasm, just couldn't see how a spider would know whether the HTML was being created dynamically, nor why it would care.

Thanks