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.
