WWYSIWYG Pro

[Dave]

Howdy
I design and maintain a lot of websites, many of which are hosted here at dathorn. Many of my clients get bent on wanting to edit the pages themselves.. Some have used little sitebuilders here and there like geocities and feel they don't want to "bug" me to do changes on the site.,..

I have made a few suggestions here and there but always encourage them to just let me change stuff but some have gone behind my back and had sombody install a script that enables them to do it..
It's called wywiygPro. (I doubt any of them could have installed the script themselves)

I am wondering if anybody knows anything about this script and if it is a resourse hog or full of security holes...

http://www.wysiwygpro.com/

I have found when these people use this program it of course get's hold of my nice clean pages and site structure and scatters images all over the server and add's bizzare code to the pages... (Like frontpage does)

As 2006 approaches I am rethinking how and what I am going to allow my customers to do things especially if I am the host... Why? Because I am building the worlds largest portfolio and I don't want sites on it that have been mangled by some kind of buggy software...

Any comments?

[Buddha]

I sympathize. I'm scratching my head trying to figure out how to accommodate such customers too. They lack the knowledge but want to do it themselves. I'm not too worried about them installing something like wywiygPro because I don't give many access to their own accounts, those who do have access, maintain their own sites. They're either maintenance or hosting not both.

My problem is I use a Push CMS to maintain the sites. Pages aren't created on the production server they're created on the development server. Any change to the pages on the production server are wiped out on the next syncronization. I really don't want to setup some sort of Pull CMS for them as it would screw up my SEO. I like nice descriptive file names, it gives my sites a little edge with the search engines. Oh ... and database backups, there another reason I don't want do Pull. Even without the database my sites still function, be it without user comments and database driven index pages. How to get the best of both Push and Pull without crippling the site and overloading the shared server? That's my quest for perfection.

[Elite]

I code my own usually with FCKEditor as the front end to allow changes to the pages content only (headers and footers and the overall look are fixed...) - Yes the HTML generated isn't great... but it is restrained within a div or table

I also use templates so a user can create a new template themselves but the site can easily be reverted to the old (my) design by just making a change in the administration panel

[sdjl]

I now use a nice little javascript utility to allow editing of blog posts for my users.
It's called TinyMCE, i think WordPress uses the same one.

It's pretty good for the database content that my users generate and i'd imagine with a little work, it could be utilised to edit files too.

Take a look: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/index.php

David

[Dave]

Thank you very much..
I am still trying to decide what paths I want to go down... I guess it's no big deal they want to do stuff themselves... I could do it much better and faster...

I don't do the CMS thing much... I used to suggest it a lot but people are usually overwelmed with something like postnuke and they want the site to look a certain way and they ALWAYS want flash... Usually more than I am able to do.

I do use cutenews on a few sites...