Looking for an OSX app(or other solution) that will allow us to edit/update a front page produced site.

September 17, 2007 9:25 AM

Looking for an OSX app(or other solution) that will allow us to edit/update a Front Page produced site.

My wife is a marketing manager at a local hotel. She was tasked with keeping the hotel's site up-to-date. The outdated site was created with front page. We would like to import certain parts of the site, if at all possible. The current site isn't exactly horrible, but the content is years out of date.

As far as I can tell, the site is just static pages - no real functionality. I dont think she's planning on adding any real functionality-this is pretty much display-only.

One of her requirements is to be able to easily update the site-add blurbs for new promotions, partner companies, etc. I'm not sure if she should use an html editor, or a CMS, or any other options. I'm very far removed from the web-development world so what I do know may be out of date. Inexpensive would be good, free is even better.

The hotel is also in the market for a new site host - if any solution requires certain server-side technology, please list it in the reply.

posted by neilkod to technology (7 comments total)

Well there's aBitWhizzy, which I've never used, but it may do the trick (requires PHP on the server.)

I'd personally go with MODx, which requires PHP and mySQL. It's dead easy to use and to have a user update.
posted by juiceCake at 9:42 AM on September 17, 2007

juiceCake - MODx looks cool. But will her site be like a 'site' or more like a 'blog'?

Pardon my ignorance, I'm just a caveman.
posted by neilkod at 9:55 AM on September 17, 2007

nvu is a free HTML editor (as opposed to a CMS), much like FrontPage. I've tested it & it's fairly good. I'd usually suggest Dreamweaver, but it's definitely not free.
posted by belladonna at 10:02 AM on September 17, 2007

If it's just static pages and you know your way around HTML, I'd just use a text editor like TextWrangler. You could go into the files and use whitespace and comments to mark off which sections it's safe for her to edit and which to leave alone.
posted by bricoleur at 11:07 AM on September 17, 2007

MODx is for web sites. You can add a blog by using the Ditto extension but it isn't blog software like WordPress.
posted by juiceCake at 1:51 PM on September 17, 2007

I use Coda for editing static web pages. I like it. A lot.
posted by seanyboy at 4:05 PM on September 17, 2007

Adobe Contribute might be useful.
posted by gwint at 12:37 AM on September 18, 2007