[thelist] CMS HTML editing advice or how to shield users from editing HTML in a CMS

[Justin King]

Hello everyone,

I am building a website that I want to be updateable by the owners, rather
than me. We have a large number of word documents that we need to offer up
as content. A CMS is the way forward I believe.

But what I don't know is what editing facilities are available in a CMS to
allow non-techy (ie users who can just about use Word) to edit or update a
page without getting involved with knowing HTML.  I assume that a template
for the would be made to allow users only to have to update

The one CMS that has been put forward, seams really bad, and allows users to
add sections to a page, based on a type of entity, but if users want to
format something, the actual HTML is visible, and can become (IMHO)
confusing and looses the focus of what is actually trying to be done, which
is making the content updating easier and easy.

I almost like the WIKI way of being able to format a doc, by using simple
mark-up.

So when a system like this is requested how does everyone allow users to
edit / delete / add content whilst also shielding them from HTML formatting
codes but allows them to format a document to a degree.

I hope my explanation is clear enough!

Thanks in advance

Justin