Has anyone here used Freeway Pro to produce the HTML pages for a company Intranet?
I’ve been approached to maintain an intranet.
I have built only two sites with Freeway and I’m trying to wrap my head around the possibility of running a small intranet. Any advise would be a sweet help to me. thanks in advance
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Most of the intranets I have worked on were served by some sort of application server, which would handle the authentication and content-filtering you would need for that sort of thing. Do you have any idea how the one you are being asked to work on is currently set up? Popular technologies in this space include Microsoft SharePoint, Adobe ColdFusion, and countless hand-made systems in PHP, ASP, and JSP.
Walter
On Jun 29, 2012, at 2:32 PM, shybuckstudio wrote:
Has anyone here used Freeway Pro to produce the HTML pages for a company Intranet?
I’ve been approached to maintain an intranet.
I have built only two sites with Freeway and I’m trying to wrap my head around the possibility of running a small intranet. Any advise would be a sweet help to me. thanks in advance
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This company does not have an Intranet at the moment. So I’m guessing using Freeway for HTML pages is not how things are done?
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An intranet can be set up with nothing more complex than Freeway and a Web server, but usually they are much more complex.
Often they are complete content and document management systems, allowing non-technical users to upload files to share with their workgroup, calendars, intricate permission management systems that allow some people to see certain documents, but not others, etc.
You could certainly design the look and feel for any type of intranet in Freeway, but the programming side would depend a lot on how you were delivering it, what level of complexity the client wanted or needed, etc.
For a start, if you were given a contract to update this intranet weekly, they would send you all the new documents they needed to post, you would post them, and upload the revised site. That’s certainly one way to do it. But if the client wanted something more self-serve, then you would design some template pages that a database application would fill in with the actual content that the client added through a secure form.
Another feature that’s unique to intranets is the idea of logging the use by employees, which means unique logins for each employee, and that often leads to graded access, where some areas are off-base for all but senior management or admins. That sort of application needs to be programmed (or an off-the-shelf solution like Sharepoint needs to be configured). This is a non-trivial job, and unless all you were doing was deploying a canned “Intranet in a box” solution, where you’re not promising any deviation from whatever the box provides, you get into custom programming charges starting in the low 5 digits and trending as high as 6 and 7 digits for the most complex systems.
I would be happy to help you with this system if you need technical support, but realize what depth of budget waters you are paddling into.
Walter
On Jun 29, 2012, at 3:18 PM, shybuckstudio wrote:
This company does not have an Intranet at the moment. So I’m guessing using Freeway for HTML pages is not how things are done?
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Thank you Walter, you are the man. I was thinking this could be maintained by one person with an HTML authoring tool or generator. The possible complexities you mention are something beyond my experience or interest…
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