I'm maintaining a website for my wife (a singer) who regularly needs to update gig info. She knows enough about HTML to do simple updates to the text, but I'd like to automate the process.

I was thinking of making the gig listing page a CGI script which gets data from a spreadsheet using a module such as Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. There could be a column for each gig date, heading and details in the spreadsheet. The script could automatically sort by date and move older info into the 'past news' section.

My question: Has anyone tried this sort of thing? Do you think it is a good/silly/bad idea? Is there a better path to take, possibly not using Excel but sticking with the idea of my wife not needing to mess with the HTML? After all, (that's my domain! :) )

Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer me!

In reply to Generating websites from Excel Spreadsheets? by Anonymous Monk

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