Speaking as someone who ran a CMS with 70+ content authors, I could not agree with you more. I often found it easier to let the users muck things up and I would clean it up later. Less stress and hair pulling out. No matter how many times you told them size 6 type is ugly, they'd do it anyway. And when they want to get in, post some info and get out in 30 seconds or less, you had better not put up hoops to uploading images.
-----Original Message----- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 11:08 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Best Rich Text Editor > a good CMS should NOT allow users to use HTML to fulfill all their > fantasies. See, this is -- to me at least -- where the laboratory gets hit smack in the face with reality. Yes of course styles should rule. But try telling a user their tabulated data can't be entered into the cms (tables are about the only way that'll happen) or that because the Board of Directors wants to use Comic Sans in 96-pt Muave for their monthly report's page title that you can't accomodate them because only a bad system would allow such a thing... Like it or not you have to allow users to muck up their sites if they so choose and it has nothing to do with whether the cms is saintly or eee-vil. > Finally, the HTML editor should not allow users to upload any image anytime. Oh my God! If I were to pick one feature that users were explicitly delirious over, and which management expressly listed as a job requirement, it would be the ability to upload an image or document (pdf, .doc; .xls or somesuch) inline directly into the page via the wysiwyg editor. I used to do it the way you describe and no, your users won't tolerate it unless you are the one writing the paychecks, or you have a plant inside management who is of a like mind and damn the torpedoes. Not speaking to you personally, Claude, but it amazes me how parochial and textbook-oriented so many developers are with respect to what a 'good' CMS is. A good CMS does what its users want it to do. If it doesn't its a textbook-correct product sitting on a shelf. -- --mattRobertson-- Janitor, MSB Web Systems mysecretbase.com <http://mysecretbase.com> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:214547 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
