[thelist] GoDaddy software and Macs

[Brooking, John]

Site: http://www.newenglandchristianartscouncil.org/

Site builder software:
https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/hosting/hosting_build_website.asp?ci=9028

Features she uses are HTML free text editing, Javascript scroller, image
uploads and photo albums.

She probably tweaks some text on a page or two a few times a month,
especially after a large event is over with. I don't know how frequently
she would want to add new pages, probably not very.

Her financial situation is that they are not a registered non-profit
yet, although they are working on it, and they have no money. She said
they can probably afford a slightly higher rate for web hosting, but
$200 at a pop for emulation software would have to be raised.

- John

-----Original Message-----
From: Bojan Tesanovic [mailto:btesanovic at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 2:00 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Cc: Brooking, John
Subject: Re: [thelist] GoDaddy software and Macs

Hi John can you be more specific what is site about, what specific
feature
your friend needs how often site changes etc best would be to provide a
link.

Brooking, John wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
>    We have a friend who has a website hosted by GoDaddy, and which is
> built using their hosted "Website Tonight" site builder.
Unfortunately,
> she uses a Macintosh, which is not "recommended" for that software
> according to their FAQ, and in fact she is not able to update the site
> herself. (I don't know how the original decision was made, maybe it
was
> before she was involved.) So far she has been calling my wife to do
> updates for her, so I am thinking about alternatives to suggest to
her.
> 
>    I'm not self-employed and looking for additional work, so the more
I
> think about it, the more I like the idea of having her just run a
> Windows emulator on her Mac so she can use the GoDaddy software from a
> "Windows" browser. I'm assuming this should work fine, but I thought
I'd
> better run it by you all and see if there's any issues with this I
don't
> know about. Thoughts?
> 
>    Alternative suggestions are welcome as well. Besides the emulator
> idea, I've thought about changing hosts, installing a native site
editor
> package on her Mac, or creating some custom server software for her
> using FCKEdit and PHP/MySQL objects. Product research is not my strong
> suit, so the first two sound like a lot of boring research, and the
> custom work option is not too attractive because this is a non-profit
> who is not prepared to spend much money, as evidenced by her
willingness
> to ask my wife to do updates for her. :-)
> 
>    Thanks for any suggestions!
> 
> - John
> 


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Bojan Tesanovic
http://www.classicio.com/

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