Browser Based Content Management

Building user editable WYSIWYG-able Websites

What you will find here are the basics for people getting ready to build or update their web presence. A bit of common sense, mixed with real world experience, practical application and some content management examples that will be helpful to both novice and professionals alike.

Our site is built on nearly two decades of experience building websites. The content management techniques used here showcase the underlying framework that allows anyone to edit their own content themselves, without spending a fortune in hosting, software or their time. This site is a demonstration of these methodologies, in short, we practice what we preach. This site is built on the code samples provided here.

Guided by a simple philosophy, that empowering users to edit their own web site directly is simply more productive. The primary design goal here is the separation of "content" from the PHP/MySQL programming that drives the site. In essence, our goal is to make the content text itself accessible to the site's owners and to provide a freely shared core of reusable programing code for exactly that purpose.

For anything more than a static, single page "brochure-ware" site, empowering management, marketing and content owners to create and edit their own content directly is a practice that will consistently lower the long term costs of managing a web site for any business, large or small. Our philosophy however, is not ours alone. Much as we would like to claim it, user editable WYSIWYG content is also the basis for most Content Management systems on the market as well as a core mission for most enterprise level web teams. It is a little like the first human that saw "the wheel" in action, once you see how it works it is just too obvious.

So whats next? Well that depends on what you are after.

• WYSIWYG Demonstration Website
  A fully functional live demonstration of a PHP/MySQL/WYSIWYG implementation. Lots of other websites say they provide WYSIWYG tools, we show you three in action.
• About What's Here section
  for more about us, our philosophies and practices.
• Developer's Corner section 
  For downloads, code samples and technical details.
• Building a Web Site section
  For those just getting started or interested in seeing more about our take of best practices.