Non technical users adding content
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- Sue B
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In light of the fact that it's better to turn off the WYSIWYG editor when using these templates, I'm interested in what other people do when handing over the site to the users.
I'm thinking I can't expect users to enter HTML code (nor would I expect them to know any) - so I'm a bit concerned about what I present them with. I'm assuming that they will be cutting & pasting from word, and other unattractive practices, so how can I make it easy for them to enter content, but not turn each new page into a ransom note of fonts & sizes etc?
Is there a preferred WYSIWYG editor I could install/buy that would help?
Has anyone else grappled with these type of issues?
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- CG Icon
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you take a chance, a big chance with allowing members to be able to have the ability to paste and create potential harmful code via a WYSIWYG editor....the JCE editor along with its subscription "pro" edition allows you a few options,, one is you can enter extensions that you do not want them to able to paste into the editor,, another is you can go through the list of plugins in the admin backend and assign priviledges,, so you as an admin as an example could have rights to all features,, your mods another set of options and authors and publishers another ( similar to the way you set up access with content...)
but the biggest method of control is the fact that everything needs to be approved by admin or mods before being published.... at that check you can reject portion or all of the content created,,, but that also takes up valuble time,, so you need to ask yourself how important is member contributed content..how important is rich content.. or can you gt away with no editor,, and just allow them text input with no options at all..??
hope this helps - Last Edit: 17 years 4 months ago by CG Icon.
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- Sue B
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Thanks, CG
Yes, I think it helps. I'm leaning towards them submitting stuff and I'll just fix it up ASAP as Admin. The site is for a sports group, so I can't see that anything they post will be drop dead urgent.
Perhaps I should just see how it goes...
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- damo
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teach them the basics of html
<p> content </p>
<strong>
<em>
<a href="url">link text</a>
if they want to publish on the web then they shoudl know these anyway - www.c3p0.se - sweden
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