Journal/News updating widget for websites - help

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Hey all

I'm making a website, free of charge, for a local Pre-School and they want to be able to post news updates on one particular page, i.e. information about closures, newsletters, events information etc. However, the person who will be updating the website with news is pretty non-PC-literate.

I was wondering if there was some kind of widget, or app, or something that I could just stick on the website so they can sign in, type out a news article and then press submit, and have the news post be published on the page, which doesn't require any actual code editing.

Kind of like an internal blogspot updater.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, both by myself and no doubt the Pre-School.
 
Are you building the website from scratch or from a CMS system like Wordpress/Joomla?
 
Would a Twitter Widget do it? http://BANNED/about/resources/widgets/widget_profile can embed with simple HTML iirc and could set them up with a simple twitter client for them to update it.....would also then let the tech savvy parents etc to follow them on twitter and get the updates without visiting the site.
 
Already have a Twitter AND a Facebook widget in a sidebar on every single page :p

Nah, they want to be able to post Facebook and Twitter updates, as well as other news updates at the same time.
 
Most CMS systems use an SQL back end to store news etc. I'm guessing you're not doing that here and want something to edit the data in place.

Have you looked at implementing the whole site in something like dokuwiki ? I use it for my own web pages at home and it does what you need I think. You may need to play with the look and feel to get it how you want it to be, but unless you want to go for a full CMS system, that's probably as simple as you're going to get.
 
I've finished the website, apart from this news page. I was hoping I could implement something like the twitter and facebook widgets into the page, and have the news hosted on a separate website, such as blogspot.

I.e. you make the news update on blogspot, and the website automatically updates with the latest news post...
 
There probably is, but it will be blog site specific and MAY require you to start coding in either Javascript or PHP. I'd spend some time googling...
 
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