HTML generation for amateurs

[Mir]

Hi, I edit a college website that allows clubs, departments, etc., to edit
their own subsites. FrontPage has been ideal for this because student workers
and staff could learn quickly how to design pages that were functional and
creative. They could keep their subsites on their hard drives and then
publish them whenever they updated without waiting for me.
I am (slowly) learning Expression Web, but our server (self-hosted) still
has FrontPage Extensions so we're OK with FrontPage for now. But further in
the future, what would be the best way to continue to offer subsites to clubs
and departments? I would like to continue to offer them (1) capability for
designing individualized subsites, (2) direct publishing/updating themselves,
and (3) ease of use and shallow learning curve.
All suggestions will be appreciated!

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

Certainly.
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Tom [Pepper] Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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: Yes, thanks, Tom. So I can use EW for the main site while the subsite
editors
: use FP for their subsites, as long as our server has the extensions?
:
: "Tom [Pepper] Willett" wrote:
:
: > Expression web will work with FP server extensions.
: >
: > --
: > Tom [Pepper] Willett
: > Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
: > ---------------------------
: > : > : Hi, I edit a college website that allows clubs, departments, etc., to
edit
: > : their own subsites. FrontPage has been ideal for this because student
: > workers
: > : and staff could learn quickly how to design pages that were functional
and
: > : creative. They could keep their subsites on their hard drives and then
: > : publish them whenever they updated without waiting for me.
: > : I am (slowly) learning Expression Web, but our server (self-hosted)
still
: > : has FrontPage Extensions so we're OK with FrontPage for now. But
further
: > in
: > : the future, what would be the best way to continue to offer subsites
to
: > clubs
: > : and departments? I would like to continue to offer them (1) capability
for
: > : designing individualized subsites, (2) direct publishing/updating
: > themselves,
: > : and (3) ease of use and shallow learning curve.
: > : All suggestions will be appreciated!
: >
: >
: >

 

[Andrew Murray]

It will work with Sub-webs/sub-sites as Frontpage did.

Yes, thanks, Tom. So I can use EW for the main site while the subsite
editors
use FP for their subsites, as long as our server has the extensions?

Expression web will work with FP server extensions.

--
Tom [Pepper] Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
---------------------------
: Hi, I edit a college website that allows clubs, departments, etc., to
edit
: their own subsites. FrontPage has been ideal for this because student
workers
: and staff could learn quickly how to design pages that were functional
and
: creative. They could keep their subsites on their hard drives and then
: publish them whenever they updated without waiting for me.
: I am (slowly) learning Expression Web, but our server (self-hosted)
still
: has FrontPage Extensions so we're OK with FrontPage for now. But
further
in
: the future, what would be the best way to continue to offer subsites to
clubs
: and departments? I would like to continue to offer them (1) capability
for
: designing individualized subsites, (2) direct publishing/updating
themselves,
: and (3) ease of use and shallow learning curve.
: All suggestions will be appreciated!

 

[Helpful person]

Hi, I edit a college website that allows clubs, departments, etc., to edit
their own subsites. FrontPage has been ideal for this because student workers
and staff could learn quickly how to design pages that were functional and
creative. They could keep their subsites on their hard drives and then
publish them whenever they updated without waiting for me.
I am (slowly) learning Expression Web, but our server (self-hosted) still
has FrontPage Extensions so we're OK with FrontPage for now. But further in
the future, what would be the best way to continue to offer subsites to clubs
and departments? I would like to continue to offer them (1) capability for
designing individualized subsites, (2) direct publishing/updating themselves,
and (3) ease of use and shallow learning curve.
All suggestions will be appreciated!

If each individual has their own sub site why not let them choose how
to update. After all, none of the web programing tools (except
editors) are as good as programing directly in HTML CSS etc.

 

[Mir]

Thank you all for your advice. So I'll continue to train subsite editors in
FP 2003.

 

[Tina Clarke]

Thank you all for your advice. So I'll continue to train subsite editors
in
FP 2003.

If these people are new ... train them in expression web .. let the older
members use fp unless they want to change.. that way gradually everyone will
be updated.

hth tina