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Internet & Networking => Web design => Topic started by: sanjula on October 27, 2009, 10:39:14 PM

Title: Easiest way of changing text on site
Post by: sanjula on October 27, 2009, 10:39:14 PM

I want to make a simple website, one page (text only) has to be able to be changed in a quick and easy way. Maybe something with a login name and a really simple editor. How can I do this? thanks in advance

Title: Re: Easiest way of changing text on site
Post by: soybean on October 28, 2009, 08:09:29 AM

How were planning on hosting the website?  Have you decided on a hosting service?  Most hosting services have some type of html editor that works inside your web browser.  You just logon, edit the page, save it, and log off.

Title: Re: Easiest way of changing text on site
Post by: alence on November 23, 2009, 09:40:29 PM

hi
You could try using FTP. There are a lot of text editors that have the ability to upload directly to FTP. Also, your operating system may support 'mounting' FTP or WebDAV on your local system as a directory, which would make it as easy as editing a file on your PC. SCP or Rsync on Unix systems is also a good option. What kind of OS do you have, or what exactly do you want?

If you decide to go the route of an simple 'online edit' type script with a web interface, I would make sure to implement some security checks. Especially if this thing will be editing a file on your server's filesystem, or storing the text into a SQL database. Be careful with XSS (wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting) and other things too.

Title: Re: Easiest way of changing text on site
Post by: Google on November 28, 2009, 08:31:50 AM

Maybe a blog from blogger.com would be the easiest way to go for you?