Is she going to need to update a lot more than just the page content really that much? I'd be tempted to do something like make up the main part of the site with her or use a design from one of the open source template sites and then find some way that she could just edit that content. I made a thing for someone where all the pages where .html or .txt files and each had a wrapper .php page that include()'d the text file they were editing.
Basically customising a CMS solution for her :-)
Ross
On 23/01/07, cl@isbd.net cl@isbd.net wrote:
What simple CMS and/or HTML editors would people recommend for a non-techie user (my wife)? She's most certainly not computer hostile but wants a simple way to create and maintain a small business web site. There's no requirement for selling or an associated database, it will just be a site comprising a few tens of pages outlining what she does with appropriate internal and external links.
It doesn't have to have very sophisticated (or any) FTP management either as I can make the web site appear as a local file system if necessary.
It would be nice if it made it easy to create sidebars, menus, etc.
The ones I have looked at are things like:-
nvu - OK, but seems to have gone to sleep as a project since version 1.0 bluefish - too techie seamonkey - Too simple, just edits an HTML page and that's about it.-- Chris Green (chris@halon.org.uk)
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