News and news archive help

Question

i'm working on a few dreamweaver templates for a project and
the one part that i haven't figured out yet is the news section on
the front page. simply, there will be the standard news headlines
followed by a summary and a link to the main article. each news
item would need to be tagged (multiple tags possible) according to
which department(s) they represent. is this possible to do in an
HTML flat-file manner? or would i need a database?
from an administrative side i would like to be able to:
a) write a news headline, summary and article and tag it
according to department.
b) select whether to include it on the front page, the
department page, or both.
c) move news items to an archive section based on department.
d) be able to exist in ANY template or design i come up with.
I have spent 3 days searching all manner of CMS options but
it seems like they are all overkill for what i want. the few simple
news components i've seen don't seem to everything i want (which
seems to be a very simple feature set).
is this something that i can even hope to do in dreamweaver?
thanks so much in advance!!

Answer 1

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:23:18 +0000 (UTC), "deejon"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>i'm working on a few dreamweaver templates for a project
and the one part that
>i haven't figured out yet is the news section on the
front page. simply, there
>will be the standard news headlines followed by a summary
and a link to the
>main article. each news item would need to be tagged
(multiple tags possible)
>according to which department(s) they represent. is this
possible to do in an
>HTML flat-file manner? or would i need a database?
>
> from an administrative side i would like to be able to:
> a) write a news headline, summary and article and tag it
according to
>department.
> b) select whether to include it on the front page, the
department page, or
>both.
> c) move news items to an archive section based on
department.
> d) be able to exist in ANY template or design i come up
with.
>
> I have spent 3 days searching all manner of CMS options
but it seems like they
>are all overkill for what i want. the few simple news
components i've seen
>don't seem to everything i want (which seems to be a very
simple feature set).
>
> is this something that i can even hope to do in
dreamweaver?
>
> thanks so much in advance!!
If your site is on a Windows server, start here
http://www.webwizguide.com/asp/sample_scripts/site_news_script.asp
and customize it as you need to. (I've never seen an
off-the-shelf
article listing system that did B and C right out of the
box.)
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