Posted by Justin Koivisto on 01/13/06 16:35

Jon wrote:

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> 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?

I have created my own custom CMS that is used for all of our clients
(only about 50 right now). We've had many comments of praise on the ease
of use, etc. but there are 3 clients that explicitly said that it is
much better than using Contribute as they had done in the past.

> 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?

In my CMS, I implement this:
http://koivi.com/WYSIWYG-Editor/

By using this, you control the content that they can actually mess up.
It's still possible to kill the layout by not closing tags and such, but
if you disable the toggle mode, they can't get into the source code, and
the supported browsers remember to close all tags that they create.

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Justin Koivisto, ZCE - justin@koivi.com
http://koivi.com

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