Let client update a website message

[Edward]

Hello,

My client would like to be able to update their 'Weekly Message' on his
site. He would do it without using FP, so I guess he would fill out a form
that would save it to a file and then the 'Weekly Message' page would display
that information.

I've experimented with guestbook, and few other ways of doing this, but keep
coming up with strange field information that would be displayed. What is an
easy way to do this: Let the client regularly type in a few paragraphs on one
page, that would be automatically displayed on another page on his site?

We are hosted on a unix server, with frontpage 2000/2002 extensions.

 

[Steve H]

You could set up a page that includes a form text area
field. Make it so the form will publish to web page x.htm
(or whatever name). So your client would go to the URL of
this form (which is not linked to the web), type his
message, hit Submit, and it will be written to the top of
x.htm. You will have a link to x.htm in the web. Is this clear?

 

[thommo]

hey,
i am at university and we have to make a web page in frontpage 2003,
and i wouldnt have a clue as to how to use it. if you could tell me where
to go to find this information.
it would be greatly appreciated.


cheers

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

1) Beging by reading and studying the FP help files.
2) Look at the tutorials/demos at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010858021033.aspx
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| hey,
| i am at university and we have to make a web page in frontpage 2003,
| and i wouldnt have a clue as to how to use it. if you could tell me where
| to go to find this information.
| it would be greatly appreciated.
|
|
| cheers
|

 

[Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage]

check out www.demo.contentseed.com and or www.asp.contentseed.com you can
hit control-y on any of the pages to edit them live.

HTH

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Chris Leeds,
Microsoft MVP-FrontPage

ContentSeed: great tool for web masters,
a fantastic convenience for site owners.
http://contentseed.com/

 

[Rick Budde]

I went to college a long time ago but we had a building
that was called, let me see, oh yeah, the library.

It had some things in there called books. If your
university has a similar building perhaps there is one
or more books in it that cover Front Page.

 

[Edward]

Yes, it's clear. Thank you!

I had tried this, but I kept ending up with extra data on the page, like
field names and stuff from the form.

I actually ended up using a table in an access database. I did create the
form on webpage x, where the client goes to enter his message, which in turn
adds a record to a table in the database. On webpage y, it displays the
database results.

Now if I can just figure out how to edit/delete records of an access
database from a frontpage webpage, instead of just viewing them.

Thanks for the reply,

 

[p c]

An easier way is to use a backend databased and and and ASP scipt to
grba abd display the last entred message.

First one create an acess datbased to holnf the mssage. Tehn create a
form for your client for enreing the fonfmration. Uase ASP fro a reponse
page that receives the form results and insrtes them into the datbase.

Then on the home page Or the page you want to diaplt the massage) inlude
ASP script to grab the last enttredred message and display it. Teh past
must be ASP not HTML.

You can find plenty of samples if you searhc fro ASP and tip of the day,
newsm headlines etce.

....PC