User Content - Control via template

[kwilliams29]

We would like to have "content administrators" that have the ability to add/modify webpages. These administrators would be able to add or modify text but not change the basic look (colors/graphics) or design of the page.

What's the best way to set up a template (let's say with 3 frames) that would allow the designated user to only modify frame #3? What's the best way to give them access to that template? What's the best way to send the template to a "holding" area so that someone else can approve it before it's published?

Is there a way to protect code (javascript or ASP) so the user can't modify or delete it?

Any comments, questions or references would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Arion23]

Sounds like you need a content management system

If you just want administrators to add in text, create a database to act as a repository for all the "dynamic" content - title, text, owner (content admin), whether its approved or not etc

You can then create an administration interface (in ASP, ColdFusion, Perl etc) that will allow you content admins to add/edit/delete content, and facilitate an approval process.

You main (public) interface can then pull out the information from the database as its needed, and present it in a uniform, predfined way.

It's not really that simple but gives you an idea of what would be required.

You may be able to achieve what you are after by using NTFS (on Windows), Visual Interdev etc, without the ideas mentioned above, but I have always found that to be more complicated, and prone to problems than a good content management system.