In the spirit of "90% of every Perl program is already written", why not just use one of the many blog applications out there like Movable Type or Bloxsom.

Your wife's needs are similar to those of most bloggers -- easy editing of date-based information.

If there's some need for Excel elswhere in the operation, it might be possible to export XML then import into the blog app -- some of them read XML I'm sure -- but unless you really need Excel you're just adding an extra level of complexity that you don't need.



($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss') =~y~b-v~a-z~s; print

In reply to Re: Generating websites from Excel Spreadsheets? by Cody Pendant
in thread Generating websites from Excel Spreadsheets? by Anonymous Monk

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