I am looing for a WYSIWYG editor so that I can create sites without have to type it all out in html, php, etc. I installed CKEditor according to the instructions at the website (simply, download and extract into the folder where I wish to ceate a website. The samle index.html page loaded, so apparently I did this correctly.) Then I looked for a program on my computer called CKEditor, and there isn’t any. (Right?) I went to the developer’s documentation and got confused really fast. I’m afraid I don’t understand much of the language here. But I copied the “complete sample” from http://docs.cksource.com/CKEditor_3.x/D ... ntegration and created an index.html page to paste it into. I was already confused. What program am I supposed to use to create the page? After all, the whole purpose is to use CKEditor to create my pages. At any rate, I created page using Notepad and saved it as index.html. So now how do I get CKEditor to work on the page? Apparently I need to create an “Editor instance”, but I don’t see how pasting this code in creates any such thing? The next page in the documentation, jQuery adaptor, goes on, “To create editor instances, other than the usual CKEditor core script, you need to load the jQuery Adapter file ….”. And I am just getting more and more confused. If I can’t seem to create an “editor instance” in the first manner, I don’t think it will help to continue reading and just getting more confused. Am I supposed to type all the code on this page somewhere? I thought the whole purpose of a WYSIWIG editor is not to have to type code. Instead, this seems to layering an additional layer of coding to my documents (and a corresponding learning curve.) In short, I just don’t seem to have the basic concept of how to get this program to work. Can anyone clarify?
Wed, 07/21/2010 - 08:21
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