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WYSIWYG Revisited
DevEdit is a Browser Based WYSIWYG Online HTML Editor...: DevEdit has got to be one of the most impressive, feature-rich, Web-based, WYSIWYG HTML editors on the market. At first glance, I thought this was just another basic rendition of the browser control within IE. Looking deeper though, I saw it's ...
Published: June 10, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
The Evils of WYSIWYG
Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient: This essay is years old, but it high-lights some points about WYSIWYG editing that are still very true today. The author is distracted from the proper business of composing text, in favor of making typographical choices in relation to which she may have no expertise ...
Published: April 15, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 993
In Search of a Lightweight WYSIWYG Client
I'm interested in finding a nice, lightweight, WYSIWYG HTML editor for use by non-developers. In this scenario, as I'm sure you know, is not havig too little functionality, but having too much. I haven't found one yet that I'm comfortable unleashing on non-developer content editors. How about FrontPage or Dreamweaver, ...
Published: February 1, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 948
Xinha Here
Xinha Here! - All Releases: Your content management system doesn't have WYSIWYG? No problem -- here's a Firefox extension to make any textarea a WYSIWYG HTML editor on-demand. Xinha Here! is a wrapper for the Xinha HTML editor that enables WYSIWYG editing in any HTML textarea and text input elements. ...
Published: November 28, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 929
A Lack of Basic Text Formatting Skills
I've been working with content management for a long time, and there's one thing that's been constant: at some point, a user is going to write and format some text in some kind of control. How good are they going to be at this? Their level of skill here will ...
Published: April 28, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 908
Mozile: WYSIWYG Editing for Mozilla Firebird
mozile: index: I installed this, and at first glance, it looks as cool as it sounds. "Mozile or Mozilla Inline Editor is an in-browser, context-sensitive, XHTML editor that allows a user to edit all or just specific editable sections of any XHTML page from the comfort of his own browser. ...
Published: October 6, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 899
To Structure or Not to Structure
I ve talked a lot over the years about content modeling. Open and Closed Content Management is probably the most self-referenced post on this site. Recently I called content modeling one of the Four Disciplines of Content Management. But, lingering behind all the questions about how to model something is a ...
Published: December 7, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 860
FrontPage 2003 Features
What's New in FrontPage 2003 for Developers?: The WYSIWYG XML/XSLT editing is going to be the category killer here. The screenshots look great. The page templates, Quick Tag editor, and Intellisense appear to be direct lifts from Dreamweaver. Given that they've moved away from the nightmare that was FrontPage Server ...
Published: October 10, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 828
Reinventing the Wheel
So, I'm using w.bloggar, and some things are annoying me: (1) there's no column for Extended Entry, (2) it's not WYSIWYG when there are lots of ways it could be, (3) there's no way to assign multiple categories, etc. I posted a request on the Movable Type Support Forum ...
Published: March 4, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 811
WYGIWYM
WYMeditor - standards-compliant XHTML editor: This is very interesting. It allows intra-text structure -- very XML-ish. Check the demo. WYMeditor's main concept is to leave details of the document's visual layout, and to concentrate on its structure and meaning, while trying to give the user as much comfort as possible ...
Published: December 16, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 811
Composite Pages and Embeddable Content
(Note: this post exists in both written and audio form. They re more or less the same thing, so take your pick. I elaborate a bit more in the audio, since I have a tendency to ramble, but I used the written post as an outline for the audio post, ...
Published: March 27, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 806
MT Stylesheet Generator
Movable Type Style Generator: Semi-WYSIWYG editing of a MT layout. Fiddle with it via th DHTML menus, then download it.
Published: August 30, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 803
Paragraphs in List Items
Here's something that WYSIWYG editors don't do well: paragraphs within list items. Like this (ironically, Markdown does it just fine): This is a paragraph This is another one. This is another list item. The problem is that one you're in a list item and you press Enter, you get a ...
Published: April 27, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 790
Textile Formatting
One of the perennial problems with Web-based content management is that people don t want to code HTML for their formatting. They don t want to surround italic text with the right tags, form IMG tags, write link tags, etc. So there are several WYSIWYG options ActiveX components like Ektron, and ...
Published: February 26, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 789
Squarespace
I've spent some time today playing with Squarespace, since their ads kept appearing my AdSense. While I try not to get too excited about new things (lest my head explode), I'm going to venture a pretty bold statement -- Squarespace is the best content management system I have ever seen ...
Published: October 20, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 787
TinyMCE
TinyMCE Javascript Content Editor by Moxiecode Systems AB: This is a really nice, open source WYSIWYG editor. The plugins and demo look great (note that the demo has every single feature enabled, so it's awfully cluttered).
Published: August 2, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 768
Using FrontPage as a Database Record Editor
My company just bought Small Business Server 2003, and a copy of FrontPage 2003 was included, so I've been playing around with it for the last week. Overall, a huge improvement over previous versions of FrontPage (it no longer messes with your stuff...). It includes something that DreamWeaver has had ...
Published: November 4, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 750
htmlarea
Well, I broke down and am trying a WYSIWYG editor called htmlarea from Interactive Tools.  It's JavaScript-based and it seems slick as all get out.  I like Textile, and it was very...pure, but I'm weak.  Sorry to all the text purists out there.
Published: February 28, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 750
Photoshop in a Browser?
Ektron Web Image FX: Ektron, the company behind a pretty good browser-based WYSIWYG editor, has released image editing capability: "Ektron WebImageFX is an imaging application that allows users to edit images directly online. Images can be copied and pasted from a local or network drive as well as a peripheral ...
Published: August 4, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 731
Zempt: MT Desktop Client
Zempt :: Multi-platform posting for Movable Type :: Zempt: I'm writing this from Zempt, so if you see it on the blog, then it worked. Zempt is a desktop client for Movable Type. It's not WYSIWYG, but it still seems very competent. HTML edit buttons, spellcheck, tabbed preview, etc. The ...
Published: July 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 731
Nvu Revisited
We've talked here before about Nvu -- the open-source WYSIWYG editor that wants to unseat FrontPage. I've played with it before, but -- despite my glowing reviews of the product -- I had never actually tried to build a site with it. However, this week, the preschool at my chuch ...
Published: November 3, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 727
Smarty for Dreamweaver
SmartyDWT - A Smarty Dreamweaver Tags Extension: I love Smarty, and Dreamweaver is probably the most competent WYSIWYG editor around today. Put them both together, and: The extension adds a insert menu, a insert bar, code formating rules and icons for smarty tags that are visible in dreamweavers design view. ...
Published: May 5, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 725
FCKeditor
FCKeditor - The text editor for Internet: A neat little Web-based WYSIWYG editor with an extremely unfortunate name. I'd love to see this name come up in a board meeting of some kind. This HTML text editor brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of known desktop editors ...
Published: July 26, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 725
MT Interface Annoyances
I love Movable Type, but using WordPress on my personal site has highlighted two annoyances with the MT editing interface which are real problems. Rather than just being annoying, they really have an effect on the quality of writing and categorization. Semi-WYSIWYG editing. In WordPress, you can "Save and Continue" ...
Published: January 16, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 718
Highlighting HTML Markup Errors
Helping your client maintain markup quality: Interesting concept of a way to help your clients keep their markup clean: style it ugly when it s wrong. [ ] one idea is to make any errors or suspicious markup obvious to the person working on the document. One way of doing that is ...
Published: October 14, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 713
XML / XSL Support in FrontPage 2003
Microsoft Reinvents FrontPage, Tapping Into the Power of XML...: Microsoft may be looking to put XMLSpy and ArborText out of business with this one. There's been a big hole in the low-end editor market for real-time XSLT editing. This could be huge. "FrontPage 2003 will be the first commercially available, ...
Published: June 10, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 712
Office 12 and the New UI
R.I.P. WYSIWYG - Results-Oriented UI Coming: Interesting post on the future of UI. For the last twenty-five years, one user interface style has reigned supreme: the Macintosh-style graphical user interface. It's now reached its limits, however, and will be replaced by a style that partly reverses some of its most ...
Published: October 11, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 708
TAL: Template Attribute Language
XHTML templating joy: I looked into TAL a bit when I was on my Zope fling last year. It is handy to be able to have all sorts of dummy content in your template while you're developing it. The benefit of doing it this way is that WYSIWYG editors can ...
Published: December 6, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 698
Content Management Predicitions
Top 5 Predictions for Content Management and IT in 2004: I really like Ektron, but these "predications" seem a little contrived, especially since all of them play beautifully into Ektron's sweet spot. Wishful thinking, perhaps. Homegrown Web Content Management Gets Abandoned...Websites - Time for a Redesign...XML Takes Center Stage....Migration to ...
Published: February 14, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 696
Nvu
Lindows.com - Michael's Minutes: Apparently somone found a FrontPage meta tag on one of the pages on the Lindows site, and they contacted the company about it. This announcement was made shortly after. "...we're kicking off Nvu (pronounced N-view). This product will bring to Linux a solid WYSIWYG HTML editor ...
Published: November 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 695
Course on Text Formatting
Good buttons, bad buttons: Rachel, over at Contented, is developing a course based around a pet-peeve of mine: text formatting. Combine this with her courses on writing for the Web, and you have a couple classes a lot of Web editors should take. (See this post for a nice rant ...
Published: April 14, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 683
Builderoo
Builderoo User Manual: This is an apparently amazing plugin for Movable Type called Builderoo that let's you things with plain text markup that would be difficult with even WYSIWYG. Specifically: Change text filters in the middle of an entry using Roo tags [...] Use special purpose filters to generate sophisticated ...
Published: November 27, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 680
Style Master 3
Style Master Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Editor: Western Civilisation has released Style Master 3. We've talked about this software before. About a year ago, we said. "...I don't see a need for it, really. It's a GUI for building CSS sheets with controls for just about every possible directive and ...
Published: September 26, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 674
Access as a Client-Side CMS
How about Microsoft Access as a client-side content management tool? After playing around with Radio UserLand and CityDesk, I'm finding more and more utility in a client-side apps. They're responsive, they don't need to be connected (great for laptops or dial-up), and you can do a lot more with a ...
Published: June 24, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 671
When Tables are Just Tables
Here's another argument for CSS-based, table-less design that I haven't heard before: by not using tables for layout, then you know that a table is, in fact, a table intended for the display of tabular data. Yesterday, a client of mine wanted to insert a table into the description of ...
Published: March 10, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 670
Generic Content Management Isn't Realistic
Perls of wisdom in a sea of site mismanagement: As I work with content management more and more, I believe more and more in what this guy has written: ...the vendors' ideal of a generic site-management system "is completely wrong", Berk says. "The development overhead is very, very high ...
Published: December 4, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 664
The Joy Of Pablo
Pablo Software Solutions: Pablo Vandermeer is a Windows programmer based in The Netherlands. Pablo is a simple guy: He is interested in music, blonde women and programming. But the software he builds spot-on. And he gives it away... He's programmed fully-functional FTP servers, POP3 servers, Web servers (a small one, ...
Published: October 21, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 661
Macromedia's Contribute
Some very interesting news out of Macromedia this morning. They plan to release a lightweight Web editing tool called Contribute that's geared for non-Web developers that need to make changes to Web pages. I'm interested in the possibilities this could open up for the workplace. I'm involved in using content ...
Published: November 11, 2002  Geek Popularity Factor: 661
w.Bloggar
When I was deciding whether or not to move off my custom-built blogging system, I flirted briefly with Radio Userland. What I really liked about that software was that it was a desktop app. I know that that's verboten in our Web-based world, but it was really handy having ...
Published: March 4, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 657
Layout Master and Style Master
There's an Australian company called Western Civilisation that I've come to know because they have (1) good CSS documentation, and (2) fantastic search engine placement. Whenever I search for something related to CSS on Google, they're one of the first results. They sell courses on HTML, CSS, and Web colors ...
Published: November 6, 2002  Geek Popularity Factor: 657
R.I.

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Is it time to put the P tag to rest? It does the exact same thing as a DIV, but it adds spacing below the tag by default. Essentially, you could have a DIV and a style rule of DIV { margin-bottom: 10px; } and it would do the exact ...
Published: November 11, 2002  Geek Popularity Factor: 652
Let's all use eadings again.
HTML provides formatting tags for headings, so why don't we use them? H1, H2, H3...you wouldn't believe how often designers re-invent the wheel by enclosing headings in DIV tags with stylesheets classes attached. I used to do it, then I learned a few things: Search engines will weight terms in ...
Published: November 22, 2002  Geek Popularity Factor: 652
MSN Spaces - The One-Minute Review
What they got right I was pleasantly suprised by a lot of the features they are offering. First off, making new entries is terribly simple. They already define categories, give you an easy way to add pictures to articles, and there's neither a WYSIWYG editor nor markup needed to write ...
Published: December 2, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 644
Content Management: Think Before You Implement
On Managing Content and Content Management Systems (CMS): This guy makes a great point here: "I have yet to see one [CMS] that is anywhere worth the amount of money and time needed to get it into place and often times, for many reasons, a CMS can actually make a ...
Published: July 2, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 641
_vti...Very Terrible Idea?
Vermeer Technologies Gives Birth To FrontPage: Joe's mention of "FrontPage crap" in his Cygwin post got me remembering the joy of having "_vti" directories scattered across my hard drive when working with the unabashed sucking that was early versions of FrontPage. (I was issued FrontPage 1.1 on five floppies by ...
Published: September 8, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 639
Open Office
I'm on one of my "shiny object" tangents lately. The latest thing is non-Microsoft software. I don't know why, but I suddenly feel the need to be all counter-culture-ish and find alternatives to the standbys. I've been browsing with Mozilla all week, and I don't think I'll go back to ...
Published: November 21, 2002  Geek Popularity Factor: 638
Thoughts on Ubuntu
Well, I finally installed Ubuntu at home the other night. I had seen it and played with it before, but I figured it was time to live with it for a while, given all the hype. Here are some thoughts -- Installation was rock-simple. I burned the ISO to a ...
Published: October 3, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 629
Movable Type 3.2 Plugins
Six Apart ProNet - Plugin Directory - Built for 3.2: If you're on the latest version of Movable Type, take a browse of the plugins built to take advantage of the new API hooks in that version. There's some really great stuff here: Ajaxify Ajaxify is a set of plugins ...
Published: November 22, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 625
The Four Disciplines of Content Management
A lot of stuff gets lumped under the heading content management. In my experience, however, all the technical activities under the banner of content management can general be broken out into four disciplines. Content Modeling This is the concept of getting your content to fit into a structured content management ...
Published: November 24, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 614
Essentials
Essentials : Mark Pilgrim has listed his "essential" software tools for doing his job. I always like to see these the absolute, "can't live without" tools of people who do the same work as me. As the risk of being self-indulgent, here's mine: Email: Thunderbird or Mozilla Mail via ...
Published: May 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 611
The Value-Add Side of CMS
I've been involved with dozens of content management systems both designing and building them, and working with some of the big, enterprise systems. During this time, I hit upon a seemingly obvious point that it took me a while to grasp: content management and content publishing are two different ...
Published: June 19, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 605
The Quandary of the Single Table Web Site
What do you do with sites that need a single table of data updated? These are sites which are totally static, except for this one thing... For instance, we have a client for which we built a static site. But they have a page which lists all the locations where ...
Published: December 15, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 594
What Content Management Won't Do
Here are a few accumulated thoughts that need to be said to companies that think content management is the solution to all their Web site woes. The fact is that content management just manages content from a technical perspective, not from an editorial perspective. The editorial part of content management ...
Published: October 15, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 594
Open and Closed Content Management
I was over at OpenSourceCMS.com today playing around with some content management systems: phpWebSite, Xoops, and PostNuke. They were all quite good, with phpWebSite being the one I enjoyed the most. But I want to articulate something I've had in the back of my mind for a while... "Content management ...
Published: June 20, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 586
Image Abstractions and Implementations in Content Management
I'm just wrapping up a bigger-than-average, commercial content management install. One of the things this system promotes -- as do many -- is image management. Sure enough, the system has a library in which the users can store images. They can browse the library to insert images using the WYSIWYG ...
Published: January 30, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 586
Your CMS Isn't Too Good for Static HTML
Here's an obvious point: all content is not created equal. When you implement content management, it becomes obvious pretty quickly that content comes in vastly different levels of structure. Structured content is easy -- anything that you can input into an Excel spreadsheet is nicely structured. A list of products, ...
Published: January 20, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 579
What Makes a Content Management System?
I got to thinking the other day: exactly when do you have a content management system? We ve all built apps that manage content, but when do you graduate from a relational database with an admin section (RDBWAAS) to the lofty and deserved title of content management system? (Incidentally, I ...
Published: June 30, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 576
Web Content 2008: Day One
Day One was busy The Next Content Wave: Hypersyndication We started off with a keynote talk from Dick Costolo, who is the guy who created and sold FeedBurner and now works for Google. He talked about how far syndication has come. If you went to CNN or Gannett even ...
Published: June 18, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 576
The FrontPage Experiment Has Failed
Can we finally admit that the FrontPage experiment has failed? You know -- the promise that FrontPage will allow novice Web authors to create and maintain (especially maintain) good, solid Web sites? Can we finally admit that this just isn't going to happen? How many people know someone that is ...
Published: January 12, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 564
Protecting Content Editors From Themselves
Say you put together a nice, static site for a client. There's a lot of CSS, a fair amount of scripting (in whatever language we'll assume PHP here), a handful of images, and a lot of HTML. The client is going to manage the site with a WYSIWYG editor. ...
Published: September 21, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 564
Middle Ground: Content Management using Static HTML
I've been toying with an idea lately, and instead of actually doing it (don't have the time), I'm going to throw it out here for fun. My idea is for an extremely simplistic content management system -- one based on HTML files and a scheduled file system crawl. First, some ...
Published: November 23, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 526
Content Publishing Models
When you get neck deep into a content management implementation, you can lose sight of the actual publishing mechanism-- how the content gets from your system to the end user's browser. No matter how sophisticated your CMS is, at some point, a user enters a URL and some content comes ...
Published: June 30, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 526
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