Google Docs + Yahoo Pipes = CMS
So, you’ve got a client that wants to manage their website content. They want to be able to update every field on their Flash website, er I mean “experience”. But there’s a catch… they FEAR technology and complex interfaces. They feel that Wordpress is too complex, never mind a proprietary custom build CMS.
What’s a developer to do?
THIS:
1. Create a Google Docs Spreadsheet – For this example I’m using row 1 to hold the field vars.
2. Set it to publish as a webpage – Be sure to select CSV format. Be sure to set it to re-publish when any editing occurs.
3. Set up Yahoo Pipes to fetch the CSV data – Set appropriate data mapping, renaming and use Regex to ensure data is proper.
4. Publish Pipe as your favorite data feed – For this example I chose JSON.
5. Load JSON into your Flash app. BOOM!
Bladow, your client can now go on doing what they’ve always done — edit an excel doc ( Google Doc ). They make changes there, it changes on their fancy experiential website.
Genius.
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