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(I found this on a site that market it's own product, what do you guys think?
I think they make a few interesting points!)
When building websites that are designed to be managed by non-designers, here are a few rules of thumb:
Never, ever send the user off to some other "site" to manage their site content!
What, to change this page, I go over to this other site (that looks nothing like my site), drill down three levels, find some other page, edit the text (if you're lucky), submit it, then go back to the original page and refresh it to see what happened?
And how is this better than calling you up to change my site?
Never allow the end user to change the look and feel.
Face it, most people don't have the knack for design. Just because you can change the font doesn't mean you should.<removed> gives all of the control over precisely what can be edited, and how it is edited, to the person best qualified for it: the web designer. Best of all, there's no PHP, no JavaScript, no SQL queries, no crazy CMS systems. It's as simple as adding a couple of HTML tags. What could be easier?
Keep it simple!
A vast array of websites out there don't need a million bells and whistles. But in order to get a simple feature like the ability to change the text on a page you need to redesign your whole site in a different way.<removed> lets you take your site, as-is, and add dynamic editing to it. Now that's simple.
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Last edited by chrishirst; 04-13-2010 at 06:00 PM..
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