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Tis the cold and flu-u season,
Fa la la la la, la la a-choo!
Time for coughing, hacking , wheezing
Fa la la la la, la la cough cough
Take we now a decongestant
Fa la la, la la la, la, la contented sigh
Drink until no longer cogent
Fa la la la la, la la la hiccup
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We've got to do better at work, and I don't have the time or interest to write anything. We have a clever lady in the office who is willing to figure out how to use a decent web development tool set, but she has no interest in becoming a guru. Does someone know of a packaged solution that can handle a small website, dashboard, calendar, event schedule, etc, that a non-developer can maintain easily? It doesn't have to be free, but it does have to be easy.
Will Rogers never met me.
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You might find some usable samples on asp.net[^] - they have a number of ready to use websites that may contain some of what you are looking for.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Great idea, Mark. I'd forgotten that site, but back in the day when I was actually writing websites, I learned a bunch from www.asp.net!
Will Rogers never met me.
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I thought SharePoint was made exactly for such purposes?
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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We had Sharepoint on our server at one point; no idea where it went. But back then I never found anyone - even here - who had any idea what to do with it, what it was good for, or how to use it. But that's generally what I need, a Sharepoint portal that a non-techie can easily populate and maintain.
Will Rogers never met me.
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SharePoint: Lotus Notes for idiots.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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The multi-phasic wrongness of your statement is offensive on so many levels, the entire space-time continuum is wretching.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Good one, that is like new signature material there, Gary!
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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I am forced to use Sharepiss and Bloatus Goatse on a daily basis, so I speak from experience.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Roger Wright wrote: We had Sharepoint on our server at one point ... I never found anyone - even here - who had any idea what to do with it, what it was good for, or how to use it.
SharePoint is a packaged solution that can handle a small website, dashboard, calendar, event schedule, etc, that a non-developer can maintain easily. 
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Unfortunately, even a developer will weep tears of blood trying to make it do anything more than that.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Unfortunately, even a developer will weep tears of blood trying to make it do anything more than that.
If you want an out of the box solution it isn't bad. Customization is another kettle of fish.
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Unless you want to do deep customizations, SharePoint is easy to use, otherwise I would suggest Joomla or WordPress.
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It's just a front-end framework for faster & easier web development. If you are scared of css, bootstrap is the way to go  http://getbootstrap.com/[^]
Cheers,
Karthik
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I am not really a fan of using tables, I like div's better!
Cheers,
Karthik
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Karthik. A wrote: I like div's better!
until you give up & start using tables 
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Also a good solution: fire up VS2012/2013 and create a new application and, voila, bootstrap all built in. Nice and easy. The you can change out the css to get the look you want from a variety of different sources like Bootswatch[^]. Very easy to do. 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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That's a good idea too (using VS)! Bootswatch is also great with some flamboyant colors like the ones in http://bootswatch.com/amelia/[^]!
Cheers,
Karthik
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Does Wordpress and its plugins not fit the bill?
I use it for my sites, has plugins like event calendars, user friendly dashboard, etc.
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When I need to get a website up and running quickly, I use Joomla[^] ...there are tons of plugins for it, free and paid, including calendars, e-commerce, social networking, photo gallery, etc etc...see here for available extensions: http://extensions.joomla.org/[^]
If you need custom content you can use a Content Construction Kit (CCK) plugin like K2 or Seblod; lets you make custom article types.
...and there are tons of templates out there, free and paid...one of the best paid template places I've found is Rocket Theme[^]
You need PHP and MySQL installed, which will also run fine under IIS, which is what I use for development, then usually deploy to a Linux box.
Your users can edit articles via the 'front end' right on the page or through the 'back end' which is where all the settings as well as content, plugins, modules, etc are managed.
There are users and roles and you can restrict content based on the user's role if you want.
Good luck!
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Just go to a forum and do a code demand. That's what most people do.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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