You all are wonderful and I very much appreciate all you do and the info you offer here. I am trying to wait to see what WD 12 Premium will look like before I upgrade to WD 11 Premium. In an earlier post I was on the verge of purchasing WD 11 Premium because of it's ability to permit folk other than the website builder (which will now never happen) and the ability to do "Stretchy Backgrounds". And just to be clear, I totally understand the "down-the-road" problems that could pop up giving someone else the ability to make changes to website content that did not construct the website. At any rate I will certainly take a look at "Jot Form & Form Tools" to start. It would see to me that all website building programs should offer "contact forms". In my copy of WD 10 Premium I don't see any info about forms in the table of contents and that's terrible as far as I am concerned. I still don't understand why the great company Xara does not include different forms that can be placed on the contact page "ready to go" without having to do any PHP, etc. While I understand that Web Design 11 Premium permits customers to change content in the clouds, I would rather take that responsibility myself. Thank you for supporting what I thought already. Before I asked the question, I was very leery of anyone but the person who constructed the website would be able to add/remove content from a website. Just a bad situation to get into in my experience.Įach of you have been so wonderful and I thank you all for your great replies. Also, don't think because it is for a church that the people will be nicer. Justs etting yourself up for hassles and problems. Again, ask how I know.ĭon't walk away from that - RUN! IF you don't want to go the extra to do updates down the road just don't even get involved. I am not even inclined to build a site for someone and then walk away, leaving them to keep it updated, because they will always blame you/me when they screw it up. The site itself is off limits if I am to be the webmaster. The only thing I will let customers do is update things like Google calendar, blogs, PDF's they upload themselves, etc. If the customer knew how to do website work they would do it themselves. You will get the blame and rep for a bad site even if not your fault. You don't want a bad site being associated with your work. By that I mean no where is your name on it and such. IF you do end up taking it on, and others will get involved and edit the site itself, make sure that the site is in no way associated with you. I told them flat out I would not do it unless I was the only one updating the site. I was willing to do their site for free but I also realized it came with a commitment to update it when needed for free too. I actually do a charity site myself( dyslexia center )and that topic came up and I shut it down right off. It will be an absolute nightmare for you. Don't get involved with that kind of a situation. People want it but often don't understand the issues involved (or they probably wouldn't ask).Agree with ^^^. In terms of end-user updatability, there is an online designer being trialed with version 11 of the software, but for me the idea of end-users updating a website, is fraught with problems.
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