[Web4lib] CMS or something else?

[John Fereira]

At 05:04 PM 9/1/2006, Tyson Tate wrote:
>On 9/1/06, Deborah Kaplan <dkaplan at brandeis.edu> wrote:
>
>>A good CMS has certain content editors who don't markup
>>*anything*.  You provide the markup, they provide the content.
>
>I'm a little uncertain of what you mean by this. Do you mean that
>there are WYSIWYG editors that are text-only (i.e. no markup) which
>then require someone to add the HTML (i.e. the markup)?

Not necessarily.  For example,  TinyMCE allows you to configure it 
such that markup styles are explicitly defined.  It may come with a 
default set up buttons that allow the content provider to apply 
markup to the content.  All of those buttons can be turned off or 
reconfigured.  On one site I've worked on I essentially removed the 
ability to apply html markup and hooked in a CSS stylesheet which is 
accessible via a select list.  So the process would go like this:

The content provide either writes verbiage directly into the text 
window or creates it using a separate application (i.e. wordpad) and 
the does a cut-n-paste.  He/She then highlights sections of text and 
selects a formatting style from a dropdown select list (for example, 
"Title", "Section", "Subsection") and applies the formatting or 
markup to the selected text.  When the user hits "Save" it 
automatically goes into the publishing workflow.  The content 
provider can't provide any markup that hasn't be configured into the 
rich text editor.


John Fereira
jaf30 at cornell.edu
Ithaca, NY