See this review of such editors by Paul Browning (Univ Bristol): http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/projects/cms/ttw/ttw.html
Peter Edwards > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Tapp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 04 December 2002 17:02 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [cms-list] WYSIWYG Editor suggestions > > > Hello all, > > My first post to the list, though I have been reading with > interest now for a couple of months. > > I wonder if anyone can help me - I'm looking for suggestions > of a WYSIWYG editor to add into our CMS. > > My company has developed an in house CMS on which we operate > for various specialist niche community/magazine sites. > (links below so you can see the sort of things it does and > the types of articles our editors are writing on the system - > different sites use different and varied article templates). > It's all built in ASP and the "Add article" page is simply a > web form into which editors type raw HTML for the article > body text. We need to keep the overall system as it has real > strengths in other areas but the lack of a nice clean edit > function for non-techy editors is the next thing we would > like to sort and turn to a WYSIWIG system. We don't want to > re-invent the wheel, so what we are looking for is a simple > plug in module that can take the place of the one form field > on the page (there's lots of other stuff in the page it needs > to fit into) where they type the body text. > > Specification thoughts: > (1) They need to be able to do a range of simple mark up > (Bold, Hyperlink, Italics, Paragraphs etc) without worrying about HTML > (2) Some more advanced functions would be nice (Certainly > adding in images and captions aligned right, left or centre) > (3) The ability to toggle between WYSIWYG the raw HTML view > (many of our editors are tech savvy and will handcode special bits) > (4) Wait for it... It needs to work on Mac and PC clients! > (This has been our biggest problem with the few we've found > to date and it's a problem we need to solve) We've thought > about doing a browser sense then serving up one of two > optimised solutions depending on the editors' platform as a > work around. Thoughts on this approach? > (5) Needs to be online only - ie all the functionality in > the page - and preferably not too heavy. > > Budget is near non-existent (obviously :-) as we cover our > costs with internet advertising. Think less than �400 > absolute tops for a patch in bit of code to work in all our > sites (a couple of which we license to clients) - and ideally > it would be near free. > > My questions: > (A) Does anyone have or recommend any plug-in type modules > that might suit our needs? > (B) Am I barking up the wrong tree or is this the right way > to look at solving the problem? > (C) Would you say I'm missing anything in my spec? > > I'm going to put the shortlist through a selection process > with our editors and I'll post our findings back to this list > if there is interest. > > Our sites (for example articles - pick a sport you like!): http://www.bikemagic.com http://www.fishingmagic.com http://www.outdoorsmagic.com http://www.golfmagic.com The ones we run for clients: http://www.runnersworld.co.uk http://www.digitalcameramagazine.co.uk Many thanks indeed for any help or thoughts you can give me, Jeremy 0207 861 9866 -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma. -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
