Truth be told, I am not much of a blogger. I have always had trouble making the time commitment. I do, however, stumble across things from time to time that I am happy to share.
Your Constitutional Right as a Canadian to Have an iPhone
This post won’t the first, last, or best take on the iPhone craziness that’s sweeping across my country but I had to write something on the issue, if for nothing else than to try and maintain some form of my own sanity …
Imitation … Sincerity … Flattery
A colleague recently spun me an email to let me know that someone on Scriptlance was looking for a clone of my website …
Digg Sucks
There, I said it. You were kinda’ thinking it but I articulated it …
WYSIWYG Editors in Wordpress
The reality of a CMS is that it will be used by people with little or no HTML experience. Because of this, a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor is a must have for most CMS installs but the reality is that most of these editors are limited in their functionality and/or buggy. While most editors on the market will provide basic tools for aligning content, creating lists, and text formating, very few provide decent image and document management capability. In my mind, an editor needs to be able to upload and manage various document types as your average user won’t know how to get these files up to the web server for inclusion in their content.
I have toyed with a number of editors for Wordpress over the years, including various TinyMCE repackages and the unfortunately named FCKeditor. These editors all had the advantage of being open source but they fell short in terms of functionality. So, the price of these editors was right but I have never had an issue with paying for applications that work.
The best editor I have found is a commercial editor from ViziMetrics called WysiwygPro ($54 US). It handles all the formatting requirements you would expect but what sets it apart from any other editor I have used is the ability to upload and insert images, documents, and media files. Wordpress bloggers will like the push-button ability to ’split post with more’ and all users will appreciate the ability to clean up Microsoft Word formatting. The editor installs like any other Wordpress plugin and offers a series of configuration options. More details available at www.wysiwygpro.com.
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