[K12OSN] Web Site Authoring Suite

[Debbie Schiel]

Something that I've introduced to some friends is Netscape Composer.

It's very basic and easy to use. Set up the publishing (ftp) details for 
them and all they then have to do is navigate to the page they want to 
edit and then click 'edit page' in the file menu. This brings up 
composer and once they've made their changes they click publish.
No code seen, very easy for technophobes!

"Netscape Composer is an easy-to-use tool that makes creating HTML-based 
documents as easy as writing a memo with a word processor.... Like a 
word processor, Composer uses fonts, styles, paragraphs, and lists, and 
includes an integrated spelling checker."

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp
http://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape7/english/7.2/unix/linux/netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz

Scott Sherrill wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>    One of the many hats I wear at my school is that of Webmaster. In 
>> the past I've always hand-coded the site in a text-editor, and that 
>> works well for me.  But, I'd like to allow my teachers and student 
>> organizations to create and maintain their own Web pages. Since most 
>> of them don't have any idea how to code in HTML, I'm looking for 
>> something that will allow them to easily create and maintain their own 
>> pages with little or no access to the actual code.  I've looked at 
>> PHPWebsite, but I can't seem to make it work (I don't know how to get 
>> the MySQL database working properly).  Can anyone here recommend 
>> something quick, clean and easy?  Or, alternately can someone with 
>> experience offer some suggestions as to how to get PHPWebsite to play 
>> nice?  It looks like a fine solution, but my own ignorance is holding 
>> me back.  One again I await your great wisdom.
>>
> 
> 
> Mark -
> 
> We have been using phpwebsite for a couple months now and have been 
> happy.   We went with it for the same reason, let folks create and edit 
> pages without knowing any HTML.
> 
>  Where are you getting stuck sql wise?
> 
> These are the steps off the top of my head:
> 
> have mysql installed
> create a db for phpwebsite in mysql
> create permissions for phpwebsite to talk to it's db
> run the command flush privileges
> 
> You also need to have the rpm php-mysql installed.  When you run the 
> installer for phpwebsite it will ask you for the db you created earlier, 
> and the account with permissions to create tables.  It's all automated 
> after that.
> 
> Where'd ya get and I will help the best I can?
> 
> Our site is: http://new.hancock.k12.mi.us if you want to take a look and 
> I am also using at http://teach.remc1.k12.mi.us (although it's not as 
> pretty ;-)  a yet to be officially released open source package for 
> teachers to create their own webpages.
> 
> Our local ISD is looking at mambo as an alternative for their hosting.  
> http://mambo.sourceforge.net  I never looked at it, can't comment on how 
> it compares to phpwebsite but it's another option for you.
> 
> 
> Scott
> 
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