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Posted by Jon on 01/13/06 17:07
Awesome - I guess I had no idea there were HTML editors like this all over
the place. With as dynamic as I've built this system (basically I put in all
the bells and whistles I could to get these guys on board - and because I'm
a new developer :P ) this could put it over the top.
Thanks a ton for all the help guys :)
"Jon" <jonra@netins.com> wrote in message
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> All,
>
> I'm currently building sites for a fairly small dev shop, and we've run
> into a subject that we simply don't know where to take. So, here we go:
>
> We have built all of our sites statically for the most part, using
> Dreamweaver Templates, and provided Contribute for the customer to edit
> the site.
>
> So, a while back my boss and our lead dev asked me to look into a Content
> Management solution using PHP/MySQL. So, I have built a system (oo design
> using classes for all queries) that allows users to add pages, edit their
> current pages, etc.
>
> My problem is that our boss is wanting to see a much more dynamic system
> that will allow a user to format text WITHOUT using HTML (currently we
> provide the customer a small HTML reference guide). After some discussion,
> it came back to the fact that maybe we should simply stick with Contribute
> and dog the CMS all together.
>
> I have a few questions:
>
> What is everyone's opinion here? Is Contribute still a better solution for
> giving customers the ability to update a website? Or are there major
> advantages of the CMS I'm not seeing?
>
> Also - is it even possible to build a system that is true WYSIWYG design
> that won't use HTML at all for editing? We don't want to just provide a
> text-based management system, but our boss doesn't want HTML to be used.
> Is there a better way to do this using PHP? Maybe get AJAX involved?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
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