This may be a tall order, but what the heck, I'll give it a shot. I've been tasked with trying to figure out if I can create a Web page for a group of people to post to. Basically, I have an Excel spreadsheet right now. It has several columns. Different users can access the sheet and input a new row of information for each column. Some is text, some is dates, some is just a check Mark. It's basically a task list: A colum for the name of the task, one for the description, one for the due date, several other columns that the user can put check marks in if they apply.<br />
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What we want to do is put that on a Web page instead of a spreadsheet that a user could access, and just enter the information in some fields, hit submit and there would be a page that would show the updated task list, with tasks sorted by date. The user would also have to be able to edit/or delete a particular task.<br />
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Is there a way to do this? Any premade templates i might find for something like this or software that would do this?<br />
thanks!<!--content-->Basically there is so-called remotely hosted scripts which can be every thing from counters, guestbooks, messageboards to pinboards (sounds like you need a tagboard).<br />
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If you need to control the information yourself, you need to contract with a webhost who offers server side language, such as php, perl, asp etc and then you must learn one of these. Ideally, you should probably consider a webhost who offer a combination of mysql/php4 for example and then store the information in a database and use php to parse and display the information.<br />
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If this is way more than you had hoped for then using remotely hosted scripts may be the way to go for you.<br />
Basically it is the same storage, except someone else is doing the server side scripting for you and hosting on their webpage and all they do for you is to provide some cut/paste html which you can paste into your webpage.<br />
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I am not sure if you can find excactly the type of format you like but there are permutations such as messageboards, guestbooks, chatboards etc which can be used.<br />
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Try<br />
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and also <br />
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What we want to do is put that on a Web page instead of a spreadsheet that a user could access, and just enter the information in some fields, hit submit and there would be a page that would show the updated task list, with tasks sorted by date. The user would also have to be able to edit/or delete a particular task.<br />
<br />
Is there a way to do this? Any premade templates i might find for something like this or software that would do this?<br />
thanks!<!--content-->Basically there is so-called remotely hosted scripts which can be every thing from counters, guestbooks, messageboards to pinboards (sounds like you need a tagboard).<br />
<br />
If you need to control the information yourself, you need to contract with a webhost who offers server side language, such as php, perl, asp etc and then you must learn one of these. Ideally, you should probably consider a webhost who offer a combination of mysql/php4 for example and then store the information in a database and use php to parse and display the information.<br />
<br />
If this is way more than you had hoped for then using remotely hosted scripts may be the way to go for you.<br />
Basically it is the same storage, except someone else is doing the server side scripting for you and hosting on their webpage and all they do for you is to provide some cut/paste html which you can paste into your webpage.<br />
<br />
I am not sure if you can find excactly the type of format you like but there are permutations such as messageboards, guestbooks, chatboards etc which can be used.<br />
<br />
Try<br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.tag-board.com/">http://www.tag-board.com/</a><!-- m --><br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.qboard.org/">http://www.qboard.org/</a><!-- m --><br />
<br />
and also <br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.hostedscripts.com/">http://www.hostedscripts.com/</a><!-- m --><br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bravenet.com/">http://www.bravenet.com/</a><!-- m --><br />
for more of same type<!--content-->