News Help

Report · Mar 06, 2007

I just started as a full time webmaster at a company that has a lot of news being put on their website, right now the way they do it it horrible, all the pages are different and the site is a mess. Is there a script or something I could use for the site to manage the news better and be able to search for the news on certain pages. I have never worked with news stuff and I suck at databases.

Report · Mar 06, 2007

NikkiDes wrote:
> I have never worked with news stuff and I suck at
> databases.

It sounds as though you had better start learning fast. The only
sensible approach to news and frequently updated content is with a
database. If it's not something you're capable of handling yourself, it
might be a good idea to sub-contract the database side of things. It's
very common for the front-end and back-end of a dynamic website to be
handled by different people.

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Report · Mar 06, 2007

well I would like to learn it and fast, but dont know where to start. Do you have any suggestions.

Report · Mar 06, 2007

NikkiDes wrote:
> well I would like to learn it and fast, but dont know where to start. Do you have any suggestions.

It depends on the server-side capability of your web server. Does it
support PHP, ColdFusion, ASP, ASP.NET, or none of them?

I don't wish to sound rude, but if you have just been appointed
full-time webmaster at a company that publishes a lot of news on its
website, neither you nor the person who appointed you had the first idea
of what was involved.

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David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
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Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

Report · Mar 07, 2007

No I never saw the site until I finished, its all over the place. He knows nothing and just keeps adding pages and never archives anything. So the pages scroll for two years worth of stuff. I explained there is a easier way to make the site look cleaner. I don’t even have the software on my computer at work yet, they had to buy it, there making my computer now. I am the first one they ever had. They use FrontPage. Because I knew so much about how the look should be and capabilities that could be used they hired me. Because I never had a news site that was this big I never had the reason to learn it. This is the first site I’ll be doing of this site and I would like to use technology that would benefit the company not what I know, so I will stay up at night learning this to benefit the company.

Its only my 3rd day today, I ahvent found out even the logons yet to the server. I will gathe it would allow for PHP and ASP. I will ask the hosting company.

Report · Mar 07, 2007

"NikkiDes" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:esm92c$bju$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Its only my 3rd day today, I ahvent found out even the logons yet to the
> server. I will gathe it would allow for PHP and ASP. I will ask the
> hosting
> company.

In all likelihood, it's one or the other depending on the hosting plan.
There are plenty of ready-made CMS applications out there. It might
actually save you time in the end to evaluate them, buy one, and then
customize the appearance of the web interface.

Report · Mar 07, 2007

Lionstone wrote:
> "NikkiDes" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
> news:esm92c$bju$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>> Its only my 3rd day today, I ahvent found out even the logons yet to the
>> server. I will gathe it would allow for PHP and ASP. I will ask the
>> hosting
>> company.
>
> In all likelihood, it's one or the other depending on the hosting plan.

Quite a lot of hosting companies offer a combination of ASP and PHP by
running PHP in CGI mode on IIS.

As a PHP aficionado, I would advise against ASP because all Microsoft
development has switched to ASP.NET. So, while ASP is fine for someone
already proficient at it, I wouldn't have thought it's a good choice for
someone just starting out. PHP, ASP.NET, and ColdFusion, on the other
hand, are all in active development, so have a more secure future.

--
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

Report · Mar 08, 2007

> As a PHP aficionado, I would advise against ASP because all Microsoft
> development has switched to ASP.NET. So, while ASP is fine for someone
> already proficient at it, I wouldn't have thought it's a good choice for
> someone just starting out. PHP, ASP.NET, and ColdFusion, on the other
> hand, are all in active development, so have a more secure future.

Right now, learning ASP is like learning Latin. It might help you
understand some old (though very important) books and scrolls, but you'd
probably not write in it today.

As soon as I have the time (ha!), I'll be learning .NET myself. Until then,
ad praesens ova cras pullis sunt meliora ad quem ad quod.

Report · Mar 08, 2007

Lionstone wrote:
> Right now, learning ASP is like learning Latin. It might help you
> understand some old (though very important) books and scrolls, but you'd
> probably not write in it today.

Very well put.

> As soon as I have the time (ha!), I'll be learning .NET myself. Until then,
> ad praesens ova cras pullis sunt meliora ad quem ad quod.

:-)

Of course, you could always learn PHP instead.

--
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/