[thelist] Ajax CMS examples
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org
Sun Feb 18 11:48:52 CST 2007
I'm on vacation doing a good job of not thinking about work. Just
thinking about the next project.
I'm looking for some UI suggestions or examples.
I'm going to work on a very simple website used by a few dozen people
that has easy to update content. Basically, wiki-like where pages can
be updated in situ.[1] Ajax in-place editing is the plan.
I don't want to use a WYSIWYG editor (e.g. TinyMCE), rather I want to
train the few users to edit HTML directly. I want the users to learn
to write content and structure and not focus on layout. It's not that
hard to learn simple html.
- Text editing in text areas kind of stinks. Are there any javascript
tools (not WYSIWYG) that makes editing in text areas better?
- I'd like to be able to edit individual parts of a page
(paragraphs?) to make the text areas more manageable. But, that makes
it harder to copy-n-paste between sections. What would you suggest
for how much text to edit at one time in a text area?
- I'm not clear how to update individual parts of a page in the
database. If I use ajax to update, say, a paragraph would the page be
made up of multiple rows in a table, or would it be better to parse
the page's DOM and replace the paragraph (so a page's content is just
one row in a table)?
Again, just looking for general suggestions and examples of good "Web
2.0" style content editing.
Thanks,
[1] Yes, I do want to reinvent the wheel.
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Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org
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