I created a website for a client of mine, who loved using Frontpage. I used Website Baker for it, and as simple as WB could be, she is unable to edit her pages properly. Plus WB has this quicky thing that if you copy/paste from Word, let's say, it will enter a million unecessary html tags (just like Frontpage does in fact).
Searching for an easier solution for her, I stumbled unto Umbraco. Those using it, do you think that she would find this program simpler for her to use? We're talking having the ability to directly edit on the page itself and save. Straightforward "admin" section.
You should always provide some kind of training for your client so they understand how to use the product. Have a look at this manual for example: http://www.orcare.com/products/umbraco-guide.aspx
Personally I think the backoffice of Umbraco is really straight forward, but obviously it depends on a persons background and experience using web cms'
What do you mean by "directly edit on the page itself"? Umbraco does provide some inline/frontend editing, it's called 'Canvas' but it does come with a couple of limitations. Not every datatype which you can put on your document types is properly editable through Canvas.
just looked at your site, it should be fairly straight forward to implement. Umbraco lets you add and remove features to your wysiwyg. ie bold italics underline & copy from word.
developer > datatypes > richtext editor
From experience if your user base is not so computer literal it's better to limit the amount of wysiwyg to what you can get away with.
IS UMBRACO RIGHT FOR MY CLIENT?
Hi all,
I created a website for a client of mine, who loved using Frontpage. I used Website Baker for it, and as simple as WB could be, she is unable to edit her pages properly. Plus WB has this quicky thing that if you copy/paste from Word, let's say, it will enter a million unecessary html tags (just like Frontpage does in fact).
The site is here: http://www.alicevphd.com
Searching for an easier solution for her, I stumbled unto Umbraco. Those using it, do you think that she would find this program simpler for her to use? We're talking having the ability to directly edit on the page itself and save. Straightforward "admin" section.
Thank you!
Andre
You should always provide some kind of training for your client so they understand how to use the product. Have a look at this manual for example: http://www.orcare.com/products/umbraco-guide.aspx
Personally I think the backoffice of Umbraco is really straight forward, but obviously it depends on a persons background and experience using web cms'
What do you mean by "directly edit on the page itself"? Umbraco does provide some inline/frontend editing, it's called 'Canvas' but it does come with a couple of limitations. Not every datatype which you can put on your document types is properly editable through Canvas.
just looked at your site, it should be fairly straight forward to implement. Umbraco lets you add and remove features to your wysiwyg. ie bold italics underline & copy from word.
developer > datatypes > richtext editor
From experience if your user base is not so computer literal it's better to limit the amount of wysiwyg to what you can get away with.
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