Testing Pages Online

[vendlus]

Ok, here's the deal.

I have several people who write articles and things for me. Currently, they post their stuff or send it to me and I put it into a template I use for the pages and look at it. This sometimes shows that my guys have put in images or tables or whatever that bork my layout and they have to go in and fix it.

 

I've posted on our forum a copy of the template I use (with css and images and whatnot), so they can take it offline and work in that. That's working fine, but I want something better for the one's who are confused by all that editing nonsense and by table sizes and such. So here's what I'm thinking... ready?

 

I want a page with a single textarea. I want the user to simply paste whatever they have into that textarea and press a button. I then want the page to load with their text (which may include HTML) in my template. I don't want it to save it or anything fancy, I just want them to be able to see it before they send it to me.

 

I may be dreaming, but what I'm thinking is to simply call my template from that button and in the correct location in the template code, have it echo the text that the user put into the text area.

 

Here's my question (assuming the above doesn't send off any flags with anyone)... what's the best way to do that? A simple post from a form? I could be sending a lot of text between these pages (some of our guys are long winded), so I'm looking for the most efficient way to do this.

 

The only major problem I'm seeing is that their images will have to be hosted before they can use this if they are using images. But I'll deal with that later (there are a couple of us with server access, so getting their images uploaded shouldn't be too big a problem... I hope).

 

Any thoughts?

[TCH-Sales]

Have you ever looked at MovableType? MT or any "blog" type engine might be what you need to make posting articles on your website easier for yourself and the author.