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Locking a whole page
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| ThumbPicker 2006-02-24, 10:16 pm |
| ...in one fell swoop...what palette does one open, button one clicks etc to
apply a global locked page?
GoLiveCS2 has a simple "Lock page" which is must faster and less risky than a
Text Search&Replace to lock an entire page.
Thanks
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| What do you mean by "lock" ??
What do you want to prevent?
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| ThumbPicker 2006-02-26, 3:14 am |
| Well, it's the equivalent of setting an entire page within a non-editable
region. The reason being, using Contribute effectively gives a client total
admin to any page. Even based on the different users you can create (Writer,
Publisher etc) once you think about it, all you need is ftp access and a client
can then edit an entire site by creating a new admin user.
Which means no more billing for web updates. Unless you sell it as part of a
turnkey package, this might cause a pause in some people selling Contribute as
a means of content editable solutions. Versus installing Content Editable
scripts which are server based and won't allow editing anything other than what
the script specifies.
However, regardless, in Contribute you can't edit a non-editable region such
as those areas you lock in Dreamweaver or GoLive as part of a template. Which
lead me to the idea of getting around a client who knows a little but not
enough.
So, you lock every page in a site except for that which the client wants
access to and even if they have ftp access, they won't mess something up.
Which, by the way, I suggest all who sell Contribute or any other means of
editing content of a website/page get a signed disclaimer from the client that
you are no longer responsible for that/those area/s of which the content can be
edited.
This is all based on the assumption they don't digging around the actual code
and remove the non-edit tags, but those who can probably don't pay for web
updates anyway.
GoLiveCS2 has a small button in their Region palette that allows you to lock
the whole page instead of dragging some marquee around everything and then
selecting as much.
However, I used BBedit and searched and replaced all beginning and ending HTML
tags and put the locking tag and it worked.
I was just a little concerned whether opening a page originally created in
Dreamweaver/GoLive in the other might convert other styles or aspects.
But now, DW and GoLiveCS2 can be used interchangeably as far as locked regions.
Just wondered how to do it fast in Dreamweaver 8.
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| If they have ftp access, they can edit it [or mangle it or whatever. it's
theirs anyhoo].
If they are using MM tools like Dreamweaver or Contribute, You could insert
template opening/closing tags with no editable areas defined. You'd have to
remove the tags in a text editor to edit the files later on.
or- just "check out" the files, and the Contribute user won't be able to
over-ride the lock, they'll just see a notice to contact the site admin. A
dreamweaver user could edit the files, but only after clicking a couple
dialog boxes.
Those methods rely on the MM html comments for editable areas, or the .LCK
lock files. Most other editors will just ignore those things.
No idea how use of golive would work- last time i looked it was using dw4
template markup i think??
A client with ability to ask "clippie" the right questions could open an
http address in Word, save as html and publish to an ftp location...
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