Family web page questions

[Minime80]

Hello ya'll coders. I was just wondering if any of you could give me some pointers on a little project I have. My family wants to start their own web page for the sole purpose of informing the rest of the family members of upcoming events (i.e. dates and times of kids football games and things like that). Anyways, they want to just be able to go to the website and put this information on there. Since I'm the only one in the family with any computer know how they put me up to the task. I guess I'm just asking for some input on the best way to go about doing this that isn't too involved (they aren't willing to pay me big bucks). The only idea I've had so far was maybe to make it like a message board so they could post stuff relatively painlessly (like this site). Well, thanks to any who respond.

[Dru Lee Parsec]

Easiest thing in the world. Just crank out some HTML and you're set http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif

Seriously, if you need help with HTML I've found this site: http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/schluter/doc/tags/ to be very helpful.

I usually don't like the "Dummies" series of books, but "Creating Web Pages for Dummies" seems to get good reviews as does "HTML 4 Dummies". However the redundent "Building Web sites for Dummies" has not received good reviews.

Either of those 2 books should give you enough info to do what you need to do. After a week or so you'll find that you can knock out an updated page in 10 or 15 minutes.

[BrianDrozd]

Another possibility, if you don't want to spend the time writing HTML code, is to use a service like http://MyFamily.com They provide web pages for families and are 'user friendly' enough that your family can post pictures or new articles or whatever without needing to go through you.

[Stuka]

Aw, c'mon, no one is going to suggest he write a script to autogenerate the web page from text files every week, then automatically upload it to the web server? Now THAT would be interesting! (And, in the long term, lazier, IMHO!). You could do it in Perl, C/C++, or any number of languages.

[Minime80]

Originally posted by BrianDrozd:
Another possibility, if you don't want to spend the time writing HTML code, is to use a service like http://MyFamily.com They provide web pages for families and are 'user friendly' enough that your family can post pictures or new articles or whatever without needing to go through you.

Thanks for the linkage! I checked it out and it just might be exactly what they're looking for. Phew! I thought I was going to have to do something too. What a relief.

[BrianDrozd]

Originally posted by Minime80:
Thanks for the linkage! I checked it out and it just might be exactly what they're looking for. Phew! I thought I was going to have to do something too. What a relief.



Glad I could help!