Suitability of FP

[Julia Boswell]

All, I hope I've got the right group of people, so my apologies if I haven't
or if this is not appropriate....

I use FrontPage for a company intranet in the most basic way at the moment.
My company wants the site completely modernised and made more interactive.
I've checked the MS website for FP information and it doesn't tell me any of
the specific info I need, so I thought I'd check with current users to see
if you think that FP is the right product for the job..... here's what we
need:

Something that can be change controlled (we currently use MS Sourcesafe
here, so if it works with that great)
A site that has one person in charge of publishing but with several
individuals who are responsible for updating the data in separate parts of
the site and sending to the web master for publishing (therefore we need the
ability to only give editor rights to certain people for certain areas)
The ability to password protect specific areas
Easy search facility, which includes document searches
Supports database use(sourcesafe & access mainly)
For the individuals who will update their own part of the site, the
programme needs to be easy to use and should not require programming
ability, even for connecting to dbs
Compatible with Lotus Notes email
Ability to control templates and format centrally
Expiry dates supported with automatic removal of out of date items

FYI, if we go this way then we'd obviously buy the latest version of FP and
we have Windows XP.

I look forward to your opinions!

Thanks in advance
Julia

 

[Theresa Bennett]

Julia, we had the same problem. I set up an asp.net intranet portal where
each department has the ability to update their own section. I hardly have
to touch it any more except to set authorization for certain people in the
department to post... and help some people with their graphics, etc. It was
a good solution for the content management problem we had. If I set it up by
myself, it couldn't have been that hard. I downloaded the asp.net portal
starter kit. Skinning it was a breeze. We use SQL Server 2000 for the
database--our programming manager told me how to set that up.

The Portal Starter Kit requires the Microsoft .NET Framework, and runs
on Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, or Windows XP operating systems. See:
http://www.asp.net/StarterKits/DownloadPortal.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=1

I use FrontPage to manage it, everyone else updates through their
browser. We also use SourceSafe on all our web development as we have many
people working on our web sites, besides the new content editors.


HTH
--
Theresa Bennett
http://www.webworksite.com
Graphics/Flash/Templates/Galleries

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[Stefan B Rusynko]

For an Intranet w/ the collaborative features you want take a look at Windows SharePoint Server
- will require a host server running Windows 2003
See http://www.sharepointcustomization.com/wss/default.htm
(Win XP is really not suitable for intranet hosting)




| All, I hope I've got the right group of people, so my apologies if I haven't
| or if this is not appropriate....
|
| I use FrontPage for a company intranet in the most basic way at the moment.
| My company wants the site completely modernised and made more interactive.
| I've checked the MS website for FP information and it doesn't tell me any of
| the specific info I need, so I thought I'd check with current users to see
| if you think that FP is the right product for the job..... here's what we
| need:
|
| Something that can be change controlled (we currently use MS Sourcesafe
| here, so if it works with that great)
| A site that has one person in charge of publishing but with several
| individuals who are responsible for updating the data in separate parts of
| the site and sending to the web master for publishing (therefore we need the
| ability to only give editor rights to certain people for certain areas)
| The ability to password protect specific areas
| Easy search facility, which includes document searches
| Supports database use(sourcesafe & access mainly)
| For the individuals who will update their own part of the site, the
| programme needs to be easy to use and should not require programming
| ability, even for connecting to dbs
| Compatible with Lotus Notes email
| Ability to control templates and format centrally
| Expiry dates supported with automatic removal of out of date items
|
| FYI, if we go this way then we'd obviously buy the latest version of FP and
| we have Windows XP.
|
| I look forward to your opinions!
|
| Thanks in advance
| Julia
|
|

 

[Julia Boswell]

Thanks for the info, I will research this and give it a try.

Julia

Julia, we had the same problem. I set up an asp.net intranet portal where
each department has the ability to update their own section. I hardly have
to touch it any more except to set authorization for certain people in the
department to post... and help some people with their graphics, etc. It was
a good solution for the content management problem we had. If I set it up by
myself, it couldn't have been that hard. I downloaded the asp.net portal
starter kit. Skinning it was a breeze. We use SQL Server 2000 for the
database--our programming manager told me how to set that up.

The Portal Starter Kit requires the Microsoft .NET Framework, and runs