[cobalt-users] help with a Web problem?

[Jim Dory <jdory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This question may be more appropriate on a web designer forum, but maybe 
there is some functionality of the raq4r that I can take advantage of 
and I know there's lots of experts on this list, so here goes:

I was a complete newb when I received and setup the raq for hosting our 
company email and website. Since I didn't know what I was doing I began 
with a web domain that I could use as a test, and named the raq that. I 
set it all up, but then added a virtual site as our main City website. I 
left the test domain, because it seemed like a lot of fixing to change 
it. So the first site setup is nomecity.org, and the site we now use is 
nomealaska.org. I'm the system admin as well as site admin for both.

Our webpage has different departments, and now one of them needs to do 
their own updates. The clerks want to be able to put up their own 
calendar of meetings (council, planning, utility board, etc..) and 
agendas. I can see other departments eventually wanting some input on 
their pages. Currently I do it all.

We have one static ip address.

So I'm wondering how to best give them access. One possibility is to buy 
another domain name and setup a second virtual site and make them site 
admins, and have our main site link to it. Would that make the most 
sense? But I suppose we would need a domain for each active department 
then. But that may only amount to a couple.

Other possibilities I've thought of are other hosting sites with 
calendaring,  or install some kind of calendar software on our raq.. but 
that doesn't let them upload agendas... Our ISP allows some free website 
space with our account, so I could somehow use that. I'm not sure if 
.htaccess would work in this case.. I don't understand that concept 
yet.. but seems like they would need the siteadmin password? I'm 
probably missing something very simple here.. Thanks for any thoughts..

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Jim D.