User based News Updates

[Andy_Baz]

Hello all,

i have request from a customer to create a news update area on part of a web page and i am unaware of exactly how to do this, i have knowledge in creating static websites and im currently delving into the depths of dynamic sites but am currently a novice at doing so.

The sites page looks like this

http://www.andybarrington.com/ice/index_copy.html

as you can see the area marked latest news is where my customer would like to be able to update at his leisure.

I can competently use the Adobe CS4 suite, but i have next to zero knowledge of MySQL and PHP but i am currently trying to learn at my own pace

Any advice on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Andy Barrington

[Ben M]

From the sounds of it you are learning while working with the client but they want to have more control which is perfectly understandle.  Have you considered CMS alternatives like CMSMS (CMS Made Simple), Drupal, Wordpress, etc.?  I say this because if you are comfortable enough with HTML & CSS you should be able to skin those without issue and then use their news modules which are fairly robust to handle the input from the client.  That would be the direction I would go in your situation.  Wordpress is the simplest version especially if a news/blog is what they want.  CMSMS has a little more advanced of an interface, but I have found that end users are able to understand it fairly easily.  Drupal is a little more complicated but does have more offers if you have the time to invest in learning it.