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> Can you recommend an alternative for a non-technical organization, where there's someone who needs to be able to edit pages and upload documents on a regular

> Can you recommend an alternative for a non-technical organization, where there's someone who needs to be able to edit pages and upload documents on a regular basis, so they need as user-friendly an interface as possible for that 25 years ago we used Microsoft Frontpage for that, with the web root mapped to a file share that the non-technical secretary could write to and edit it as if it were a word processor. Somehow I feel we have regressed from that simplicity, with nothing but hand waving to make up for it. This method was declared "obsolete" and ... Wordpress kludges took its place as somehow "better". Someone prove me wrong.

13_9_7_7_5_18 1y ago
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bigfatkitten 1y ago
A previous workplace of mine did the same with Netscape (and later, Mozilla) Composer. Users could modify content via WebDAV.
shakna 1y ago
Part of that is Frontpage needing a Windows server, and all that entails. The other part is clients freaking out after Frontpage had a series of dangerous CVEs all in a row. And then finally every time a part of Frontpage got popular, MS would deprecate the API and replace it with a new one. Wordpress was in the right place at the right time.
- aaronbaugher 1y ago
  Yeah, getting Frontpage working on a Linux/Apache system and supporting it back then wasn't exactly a treat. Good idea, maybe, but bad implementation.
  - donnachangstein 1y ago
    I think you're mistaken. The use of WebDAV was not a requirement. Frontpage could function in "HTML editor" mode and just write to the filesystem. In that case, any WYSIWYG editor would do but FP was there and available.
MrDOS 1y ago
For those on macOS, RapidWeaver still exists: https://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/ https://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/. (Shame that it's now subscriptionware, though – could've sworn it used to be an outright purchase per major version.)
miramba 1y ago
“best viewed with Internet Explorer in 1024x768”

13_9_7_7_5_18 1y ago

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bigfatkitten 1y ago

A previous workplace of mine did the same with Netscape (and later, Mozilla) Composer. Users could modify content via WebDAV.

shakna 1y ago

Part of that is Frontpage needing a Windows server, and all that entails. The other part is clients freaking out after Frontpage had a series of dangerous CVEs all in a row. And then finally every time a part of Frontpage got popular, MS would deprecate the API and replace it with a new one. Wordpress was in the right place at the right time.

aaronbaugher 1y ago
Yeah, getting Frontpage working on a Linux/Apache system and supporting it back then wasn't exactly a treat. Good idea, maybe, but bad implementation.
- donnachangstein 1y ago
  I think you're mistaken. The use of WebDAV was not a requirement. Frontpage could function in "HTML editor" mode and just write to the filesystem. In that case, any WYSIWYG editor would do but FP was there and available.

MrDOS 1y ago

For those on macOS, RapidWeaver still exists: https://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/ https://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/. (Shame that it's now subscriptionware, though – could've sworn it used to be an outright purchase per major version.)

miramba 1y ago

“best viewed with Internet Explorer in 1024x768”