Need help yet again :-)

[SBFan2000]

I have a website that I hadn't upgraded forever. I've gotten alot better at
HTML and frontpage since I developed it and I'm looking to do one more thing
that I've never done.

Its a website for my graduating class (highschool) and I have these bio
pages that contains some basic information about each classmate. Right now
to update their info they fill out a webform and it gets emailed to me and I
update the page. Some have complained and I would like to make it so they
can upgrade their own page. I'm thinking I would like to have it so each
one has a user name and password that would get them to a webform and then
when they click submit on the webform it updates the website automatically.
How do you go about this? Are there any good step by step how tos?

The some of the pages are at http://glenngriffith.com/mva/menu1.html if
looking at them helps understand what I want to do!

Also thinking I would like to install a chatroom. Is their a good free, or
nearly free one that would run on my server? I have CGI/Perl, PHP and
others.

Thanks for any help.
Glenn

 

[Linker3000]

I have a website that I hadn't upgraded forever. I've gotten alot better at
HTML and frontpage since I developed it and I'm looking to do one more thing
that I've never done.

Its a website for my graduating class (highschool) and I have these bio
pages that contains some basic information about each classmate. Right now
to update their info they fill out a webform and it gets emailed to me and I
update the page. Some have complained and I would like to make it so they
can upgrade their own page. I'm thinking I would like to have it so each
one has a user name and password that would get them to a webform and then
when they click submit on the webform it updates the website automatically.
How do you go about this? Are there any good step by step how tos?

The some of the pages are at http://glenngriffith.com/mva/menu1.html if
looking at them helps understand what I want to do!

Also thinking I would like to install a chatroom. Is their a good free, or
nearly free one that would run on my server? I have CGI/Perl, PHP and
others.

Thanks for any help.
Glenn

Joomla!

(go Google)

 

[clintonG]

Check out Microsoft's free Club WebSite Starter Kit [1] but note extending
the starter kit will require ASP.NET development skills.

<%= Clinton Gallagher
METROmilwaukee (sm) "A Regional Information Service"
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://metromilwaukee.com/
URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/

[1]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/clubwebsitesk.asp

 

[SBFan2000]

is this going to require ASP? Don't think I currently have that on my
hosting plan. Was looking more towards MySQL. Will it work for this
application?

Check out Microsoft's free Club WebSite Starter Kit [1] but note extending
the starter kit will require ASP.NET development skills.

<%= Clinton Gallagher
METROmilwaukee (sm) "A Regional Information Service"
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://metromilwaukee.com/
URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/

[1]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnaspp/ht
ml/clubwebsitesk.asp

I have a website that I hadn't upgraded forever. I've gotten alot better
at
HTML and frontpage since I developed it and I'm looking to do one more
thing
that I've never done.

Its a website for my graduating class (highschool) and I have these bio
pages that contains some basic information about each classmate. Right
now
to update their info they fill out a webform and it gets emailed to me and
I
update the page. Some have complained and I would like to make it so they
can upgrade their own page. I'm thinking I would like to have it so each
one has a user name and password that would get them to a webform and then
when they click submit on the webform it updates the website
automatically.
How do you go about this? Are there any good step by step how tos?

The some of the pages are at http://glenngriffith.com/mva/menu1.html if
looking at them helps understand what I want to do!

Also thinking I would like to install a chatroom. Is their a good free,
or
nearly free one that would run on my server? I have CGI/Perl, PHP and
others.

Thanks for any help.
Glenn

 

[PM]

is this going to require ASP? Don't think I currently have that on my
hosting plan. Was looking more towards MySQL. Will it work for this
application?

mySQL is a database management system....You could use it to store their
information in database tables, if that's what you're asking. You would
then have to code the backend form handlers in a language such as PHP.

However, if you've never done any programming (and HTML is not a
programming language), even a simple app like this one may seem a little
daunting at first. I'd recommend googling for a good php/mysql tutorial
(there are plenty).

 

[SBFan2000]

ok, took the entire weekend but figured it all out. Go the MySQL database
mostly up, got the html form where my class can update their information and
a html form that retrieves the information on each classmates individual
site.

However, I have one more question! How do I hide the url from those viewing
the website. (When you hover over the link or in the address bar.) The url
is going to contain a unique "code" for each classmate so that they can
update their own information but not others. Its not a huge deal because
all the information is going to be in a passworded directory but was going
to give everyone the same password and the "codes" are just an identifier
for each record. But if they can see the code in the url then one classmate
could update the information of another. There were a couple class clowns
and I would prefer they not know everyone elses ID.