[thelist] Data Entry to Web Page

rudy r937 at interlog.com
Fri Jan 17 07:32:01 CST 2003


hiya michele!

>  Anything else I should be looking for?

yes, a content management system

no way are you going to be able to process the memo field and translate
whatever it's got into html

for example, besides paragraphs and lists, other common requirements are
bold and headings

how are you going to detect a bold phrase?  there's just no way, unless you
get the folks to embed some kind of marker like the asterisk for your list
item... but what marker do you want to use for bold?  the client won't like
it

and headings -- how are you going to detect what font, what size, what
colour?

oh, you might be able to put something in place, like <font size=+1
color=red>, but knowing clients, they're not going to be happy with that at
all

save yourself hours and hours of grief (and your client the associated
billing cost) and tell the client honestly that they will save money in the
long run by spending the bucks on a commercial product

i think .jeff has built one, but it would be quite sophisticated, perhaps
more than you need -- you really only need a basic one, from your
description -- and furthermore, i don't know if his company markets it

good luck


rudy





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