I am using the latest Freeway Pro to produce our firm’s website. A colleague would like to run a news page and independently update it - he is not a Mac user and uses a windows machine (boo!).
Is there any simple way of allowing him to easily update a news page from a windows machine and if so can it be explained very simply to me as I am not very savvy when it comes to IT except that I have managed to produce and publish our websiteusing Freeway Pro via Fasthosts…
Your help would be much appreciated.
Kind Regards
Adrian
PS I did read one of the support topics but what didn’t appeal to me was the fact that any updating i subsequently do will overwrite my colleagues work if I use the method suggested.
Have a look at Pulse cms. The free version would do fine if just for occasional updates of your news page. Their pro version would allow for other possible options but if just a switch around of text/items the free version would be fine and very easy to implement.
Your colleague can update from anywhere, even with windows pc.
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ps/ I only mention pulse again as it has a free version, there might be other free cms out there that would do the trick.
And using Pulse you only create the container(s) in the FW document - all the contemt is added through the Pulse online interface so it will not be overwritten when you update the site with FW.
Hello, just to comment my experience. In this forum I was recommended to use webyep, and a tool that it was supposed to be used for same small updating, happens that you can do much more with it. I dont know Pulse, but I would have a look if in the future yo want to make more updatings, if with pulse you are limited.
WebYep is recommended but like all CMS they can be quite complicated and if you just want the ability to update one page then Pulse offers a FREE option.
The learning curve for updating a single page with Pulse is very shallow - that is one reason it was recommended and while WebYep can do it just as well it would probably be overkill here.
and if you just want the ability to update one page then Pulse offers a FREE option. >
Adrian, please, take into account what expert people say here. Im just a newby. I just said that if in future you want to change more pages, perhaps there are other tools. I dont know Pulse, but im really happy with the few things im able to do with webyep. And as a newby, i have problems, and dont know haw to do lots of things. Perhaps Pulse is better. Well, not perhaps, sure, beceause DeltaDave and seoras say that.
And in other hand, i know sometimes i dont write what i think, because of my english.
There are many good cms programs out there. Pulse, Webyep, perch, mojo, ao, etc. The former have been discussed extensively on this forum, perhaps as they integrate easily without too much knowledge of code, a basic principal of Freeway itself. So, a good knowledge base of the in’s and out’s has formed on these products. There are particular experts on using webyep if that is your choice.
For my money, simple soul that I am, Pulse is the easiest and handles images particularly well (webyep might also now, its a while since I tried it), it’s perhaps less versatile (?) than webyep in certain areas but I like the idea of keeping things simple (Pulse does declare itself a simple cms) for myself and the client who at the end of the day has to use the thing. The client who’s website I’m currently working on picked up what to’ and not do’ very easily.
Going back to your original question; perhaps you could get your colleague to look at the demo’s and see from his/her perspective, if we haven’t persuaded you one way or another.
Thank you all very much for you kind replies. I shall do a bit more investigating and as you say seoras perhaps ask the colleague who will have to work with it.
Even though Pulse is simple, for some reason I cannot get it to work. I am using TextWrangler for an HTML editor. Is there someone that can help get me on the right track?
