Newbie Question - Website Maintenance

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paddy_za

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Hi there,

I am appealing to the altruistic souls out there to provide me with a bit of help and advice with some issues that are probably very simple compared to other threads on this forum.

I have recently been asked by my boss to look after the maintenance of our website. It is hosted on our ftp server and is in .php format. The changes that I will make will be purely content related and will mostly entail editing, removing or adding text/images. I have obtained a copy of the website and would like some advice on what would be the best way to accomplish what I need to do?

My requirements are:

1. Being able to check out certain sections of the website.
2. Being able to edit these sections.
3. Viewing the full website with the changes before it is checked back in (apparently .php requires a server and cant be viewed offline? not sure if this is true?)
4. Customizing tags (Going to do a bit more research on this)

I really appreciate any feedback that you are able to provide.

Thanks,
Patrick
 
Website files can be edit much like any other file. If you have "static" content, that is content that is not being retrieved from a database, then you could edit the files using any text editor of your choice and copy those files back to the server. If you don't know any html, it will make things a bit more difficult and you'll need a wysiwyg editor which allows you to see a visual representation of the website (like you would see it in a browser). You won't see the dynamic content because you are correct in that the php code can only be executed by a web server. I would get someone in to help with this if you have no web experience as things could go wrong quite quickly.
 
Hi guys, thanks for the replies. It will just be very basic static data that I will be editing. Can you recommend a good wysiwyg editor? Thanks!
 
A CMS is a Content Management System, something like WordPress. Considering that you say the website is already written in PHP, it may well already incorporate some form of a CMS and you might want to ask if there is a backend to the website.

Alternatively, static HTML / CSS can be used. You can try http://net2.com/nvu/download.html as a free WYSIWYG editor (I know, their website does look bad).
 
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paddy_za said:
Hi guys, thanks for the replies. It will just be very basic static data that I will be editing. Can you recommend a good wysiwyg editor? Thanks!
Click to expand...

WYSIWYG = Dreamweaver, Kompozer

My Choice = Aptana Studio
 
RSkeens said:
A CMS is a Content Management System, something like WordPress. Considering that you say the website is already written in PHP, it may well already incorporate some form of a CMS and you might want to ask if there is a backend to the website.

Alternatively, static HTML / CSS can be used. You can try http://net2.com/nvu/download.html as a free WYSIWYG editor (I know, their website does look bad).
Click to expand...

Rather go with Kompozer, a fork of NVU with less bugs.
 
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