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hobbsa
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Nov 1, 2005, 2:22 PM

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I am an IT consultant. I have a friend who is trying to maintain a web site using Page Publisher, and appears to be struggling. I don't know much about the product, but it seems to be pretty good, and pretty user friendly. Is the product as easy as it appears to be? Are their problems most likely user issues? Before they get totally frustrated and bail on it, is there any training available?

Any insight would be appreciated.


ross
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Nov 2, 2005, 2:47 PM

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Hi there.

Thanks for posting and welcome to the board!

I can assure you that Page Publisher is extremely easy to use. Once your page is setup for Page Publisher to update, you can edit text, images, links, etc without actually having to muck about in HTML.

When your clients are making their changes, they will just see a text box if they want to edit text, then a button that lets them upload images to the server to replace ones that are already there. All files are uploaded for them by Page Publisher and all changes are written to the page automatically when they hit save.

Setting the page up to be editable will be just as easy for you as editing the content is for your clients. Basically you just go onto the page you want to set up and out line the sections you want to be updateable with a special bit of code. The code is actually just like an HTML tag. You put an opening one at the start of the area and then a closing one at the end.

Does that all make sense? Basically, Page Publisher is going to be extremely to use. We are here to help though so me know if you need hand with anything Smile.
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hobbsa
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Nov 2, 2005, 3:01 PM

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Thanks for your reply. I didn't set this up, I'm actually just trying to help a friend, who actually asked if I had any recommendations for a different way to update. Here is what she is telling me:

She would change something, then close a couple things, then open the site, then see that the change didn’t look the same (off centered, etc.), then close it, go back, try to move it over a few spaces, close it again, open the site again, look at it, still doesn’t look quite right, etc. This went on and on for every minor text change. It took forever. Angie has been making updates for almost a year now. It’s getting easier for her, but is still really time consuming.

Is it that it was set up poorly to start with? Or what else could be causing their struggles?

Amy


ross
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Nov 3, 2005, 11:48 AM

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Hi again Amy.

Thanks for the update!

From the sounds of it Angie way is ok. You can call it “guess and check” if you want and is a fairly common way of setting things up. You make a small change, then check it out. See that it isn’t quite right and move it a little in the other direction, then check it out. This can continue through several cycles.

I am not really sure how you could cut down on this though as it’s more of a personal thing. She must really like her sites to be laid out very specifically.

I think she is doing ok though. Let me know if you have anymore questions Smile.
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Ross Fairbairn - Product Specialist
support@interactivetools.com

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Template changes, advanced features, full integration, whatever you
need. Whether you need one hour or fifty, get it done fast with
Priority Consulting: http://www.interactivetools.com/consulting/