Within the last 24 hours I've discovered CKEditor, downloaded it, installed it and with a little help from the community, got it working --- well almost!
But i don't think that it's clear from the Homepage exactly how CKEditor can be used. Although the description accurately communicates how it works (administrative developers integrate it and workers use it), I've come to realise that it's not clear how a person might use it until you have played with it. It's elegant, lightweight and fast, it's a design tool and a content editor, but would anyone recommend that I use it to manage my own personal website? Get my point??
It seems like the ideal tool for workgroups to collaborate on webpage development, whilst the site is off-line, because who wants to publish a web-page to the internet with CKEditor installed.
I'm in admiration, but I would like to expand my thoughts regarding how others use CKEditor... if you could take the time to write up how you apply ckEditor... I would love to know. Many thanks to all!
p.s. [thx to Batman for helping me out with the topic - Is it Newbie friendly?]
But i don't think that it's clear from the Homepage exactly how CKEditor can be used. Although the description accurately communicates how it works (administrative developers integrate it and workers use it), I've come to realise that it's not clear how a person might use it until you have played with it. It's elegant, lightweight and fast, it's a design tool and a content editor, but would anyone recommend that I use it to manage my own personal website? Get my point??
It seems like the ideal tool for workgroups to collaborate on webpage development, whilst the site is off-line, because who wants to publish a web-page to the internet with CKEditor installed.
I'm in admiration, but I would like to expand my thoughts regarding how others use CKEditor... if you could take the time to write up how you apply ckEditor... I would love to know. Many thanks to all!
p.s. [thx to Batman for helping me out with the topic - Is it Newbie friendly?]
Re: Newbie friendly - does it do what i think it does!
It is still up to you to do something with that content just as if you were using that <textarea> without CKEditor.
What I chose to do with that <textarea> is add a little Javascript and PHP and turned CKEditor into a very simple, but very useful content management system. Until you do something with the <textarea>, CKEditor is just an interface that places content in a <textarea>.
I guess I understood that right away because when I found CKEditor, I was specifically looking for a <textarea> replacement.