Monday, August 3, 2009

I am editing a webpage in Dreamweaver, can I program it to email certain people each time it is uploaded?

The question says it all - I revise and upload an html page about 4-8 times per day, I would like certain people to receive a notification each time it is updated, is this possible without heavy programming or expertise?

I am editing a webpage in Dreamweaver, can I program it to email certain people each time it is uploaded?
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Reply:I use dreamweaver all the time.. I dont think this could be done easily. I would think you would need some kind of a script written to do this. Check out rentacoder.com for some coders to do it for you.
Reply:There's a free mailing list facility at Aardvark. All you'd need to do is to make a list of the people you wish to notify, and then send them a general email each time you update your site.
Reply:I believe theres a code or PHP program that you can put on your site were on any part of the site itll say "last updated on --/--/----. but im not shure thats what you want, i have a PHP-Fusion site and its easy, i just PM everyone saying what upgrade we have and stuff. You should use PHP-fusion, go to PHP-Fusion.co.uk, the site will tell you everything you need to know, and it will come out a .com site if you want it. PHP-fusion isnt a hoster, its a file you download then put it in your File Manager.
Reply:No matter how you do it, people will have to "opt in" to get these notices about the page updating. I would try something like http://www.changenotes.com/ although I think it only allows for daily (once a day) updates.





Your next best option is to have these updates also added to an RSS feed. If your site isn't very custom, you might want to look into http://www.wordpress.com or something similar as they're made for such things.





Another option would be to either custom-code a solution where a visitor signs up for notices, it stores their info in a database, and then you either have an hourly cron script check the page's file date and send updates if it's a new update OR manually run a small php script that grabs the emails from the database and emails people.

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