Group authoring of web pages has been a fairly daunting task in the past. Authors and editors oftentimes do not possess basic web design experience and/or skill levels, which can be problematic.
Over the past few years, have had clients approach me wanting to assume greater roles in the content management of their site. Many of these clients had no HTML / CSS / Javascript experience, let alone the experience to quickly learn Dreamweaver, Front Page .... or run a full-blown open source CMS system such as WordPress, Drupa, or Joomla. With all the above web authoring software, learning curves can be fairly steep, especially when considering the architecture that might exist within a large web site.
After reading user reviews, I recommended to a couple of my clients that they set-up a 'Blogger' account, hosted by Google. Designed for the novice user, their experience with Blogger has been very positive. From creating web pages to formatting type, inserting and positioning photos, or adding hyperlinks ... the tools provided are very straightforward and intuitive. Knowledge of HTML coding is not necessary, unless the user wishes to become more sophisticated with their pages.
Using "innerframe" tags, I am able to embed authored content into their existing sites. Because the content is dynamic and updated continuously, whatever a client creates or edits is immediately refreshed and available on their main site, and with no further assistance required of me.
The system works well, as you can see in this example.
Friday, September 18, 2009
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