Hello,

I am new to this forum, but really like what I see so far! Question: I have to either a scrolling banner, or some form of text that a user must change at will by filling out a form and submitting a .txt file, populating with the new text. example: township would like to notify people of power outages, brush pickup, etc. I have done static sites, but have no clue where to start. Being a simple text file update and not an actual database, which technology/method would be the best and easiest to use?

I guess depending on who is going to be updating the file. If it is going to be you then use an xml file and change the text that way. What you can do is have your xml file somewhere on the site, then you give the end user the ability to submit a form, you then update the xml file with the info they just submitted.

Sorry,
it won't matter who does it if you do it the way I said. When the form is submitted it updates the xml file, then you never have to be involved with making updates to that section.