What software is available to allow users to update their own pages?

Web Update Software for users (not webmasters)

[alcheme]

What software is available to allow users to update their own pages?

I am designing a site that will include 100 people with there own pages. They need access to their own pages to update regularily. It's too much for a webmaster so what software is available so they can do this?

It would be text, links and pictures only.

~Shane

[too much information]

I just set up a site like what you are describing. (Although it was a single user site) but I used an Access Database to store the text, images and everything else for the page so that all they had to do was login and edit the text, then logout and the main site would pull from the database.

You will need to create a login for each user and take them to a form but it wasn't that dificult.

For really long entries you can use the 'memo' entry type in Access to store all of the HTML they can enter.

If you set up your forms correctly it should be easy enough for them to understand what to do.

[4serendipity]

You might want to check out Macromedia Contribute, Sitepoint Editize, or Ektron eWebEdit Pro

[chiyo]

The great majority of CMS (content Management systems) will do this in varying degrees of complexity, as will out-of-the-box or slighl modified blog software. 90% of this sofware works very well, is free, and 30% require little or no coding knoweledge. To my mind these provide more flexible and simpler solutions than the commercial software like Contribute etc which are more "show" than "function".

Suggest you look under those headings in hotscripts.com in the coding of your choice, php, perl/cgi, asp, etc etc.

[robjones]

Recently, I had this problem with clients who wanted to update the news pages of their sites themselves without going through the designer(me), so I just set up a blogger account and gave it ftp access to write to the server.
I modified the template so it fits with the rest of the site and the arrangement works out well for everyone, the blogger interface is easy to use for people who don't know HTML and I don't have to constantly update the pages.

[alcheme]

RE: ACCESS DATABASE (Too Much Info...)

IS there a handy Access Tutorial for setting up such a feature on a web server so users can update there own info?

~Shane

[Marcia]

I have someone who wants to do this - add to existing pages - and add new pages also. It's been a problem finding something that'll also keep the pages search engine friendly. Im wondering if this will take two different tools or if there's one that'll do both.

[mat]

Macromedia Contribute - apart from 100 * 99 dollars, don't go there anyway. It just can't cope with that number of users - dog, dog slow.