Re: FN-FORUM updateable pages

date posted 31st January 2001 07:55

Hi David

I think that the limiting factor of DW wouldn't be the engine itself, but
rather how much effort it took to customise the front end to cope with all
the possibilities available within a large/complex site. I've been
intending to use the M$ Dynamic HTML Editing Component to give clients a
fully functional editor, but of course it relies on them using IE4+, the DW
solution is cross-browser (and as far as I can tell cross-platform).

On top of that it should be possible to customise the Ultra Dev engine
(which appears to basically be DW, they use the same XML files to control
menus etc), so that it could be possible for clients to rearrange even DB
genereated stuff (not that the code UD produces is very noteworthy).

Interesting stuff and I might have to have a further look at it today.

Norman

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Radford" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM updateable pages


> Hi Norman,
> Yes you are correct in your assumption. A friend of mine was given a copy
> and some templates to keep his site up to date. To be honest I didn't much
> like that solution.
> Your idea is interesting, though for a simple site I'd suggest using
> something a free template site like coolebiz which can be readily changed
> (no consultancy fees though !)
> I wonder whether DW could cope with a complex site?