Hello

I want to provide my control panel users with a very easy to use
WYSIWYG HTML Editor. Most of them are absolute novices in HTML.

I have searched high and low for an easy to use wysiwyg html
editor for Unix platform. I have looked in search engines,
directories, Zdnet and Tucows. What am I missing? All I
find are html editors but no real wysiwyg ones.

Can anyone help me with this? I am willing to pay for the
program if its available.

Thanks

Try Fileman from Gossamer-threads http://www.gossamer-threads.com/
Although it's main purpose is to control files (the name's a giveaway!) it also has a nice little editor installed.

There are a few other options for the *nix platform, but the prices are rather high

www.webedpro.com... possibly the best editor out there, but its pretty expensive if you want to include it by default with all accounts... its probably more suited to design clients wishing to have some control over their sites.

Both the suggested programs are of almost the same price - $150- but I think Web Edit Pro is more suitable for my purpose.

Is it possible that something similar is available for a lesser price?

Thanks

There's also site studio : http://www.psoft.net/products.html

I need an easy to use web based WYSIWYG HTML editor for multiple users. This editor would be used to create HTML and text emails (inside a user control panel by my customers). Please note that web pages are not required. I need it to work well with the text and HTML templates I will provide.

Can anyone do this for a reasonable price?

Thanks

We have had a good experience with both of these.

HTML Editbox is $10 US
http://www.labs4.com/go/index.php
They have already integrated it into several programs, and it is easy to integrate into any textarea in a form.


Web Editor is $55 US and after you order 10 the price goes down to about $20. Prices posted on their site are in NZ$
http://www.webeditor.co.nz/

This program is able to be dropped into a site, and set up requires only about 5min.

Thanks so much.

These two sound exactly like what I need, and are very reasonably priced too.

Originally posted by biztalk
Thanks so much.

These two sound exactly like what I need, and are very reasonably priced too.

Talk about pricing! Do you know that it's nothing more than some dhtml coding? There's no server-end programming required. Why anyone would pay a per-user/website fee for this is beyond me.

Just go visit some of the popuplar javascript/dhtml sites out there and they might have some tutorials on how you can create one of your own.

Here's a good one for free:
http://richtext.cs.ramesys.com/

:confused:

This is driving me crazy. I 've got programmers asking for $6000 to program this and you tell me I can learn to do this myself!!!
As for the free one, if I need some customization, who do I ask??

Here you go

see the pm sent to you with a link to some code.

ps, the Rich Text Editor linked above might be a better start for you as its more complete than the sample I sent you.

Just View Source to get the complete code for my example.

Play around with it. Typical windows short cuts work like CTRL-B, etc. You can even drag and drop text and images into it, even formatted objects, for the most part.

But some assembly required. Perhaps lots, depending on what you are planning on doing. The "save" button in the example does nothing. In the content management system I have written, an editor based on the code presented here retrieves and saves the content to a SQL database. Old content is archived to disk files for performance. The same form is used with some modifications for a forum system as well.

This only works for MS IE 5 or newer, so your code needs to test for users' browser and version. Some of the commercially available solutions are cross platform or at least support more platforms.

Helping you customize this is beyond the scope of what I'm willing to do however. It will require non trivial effort to create a generic tool that you could offer web hosting customers. You'll need to deal with files, locations, permissions, passwords, etc.

But it can be done. Good luck...

An Open Source alternative:

http://sf.net/projects/xsdheditor

http://www.gossamer-threads.com has a rich html editor too. Don't know if they sell it separately from their other programs though.

And yeah, $6k is a RIPOFF! Just email the author of some free ones and ask them to customize if for you for a fee. Simple as that and shouldn't cost you too much, if anything at all.

I ordered the HTML Editbox yesterday, and I think it was worth the $10 bucks...

CPanel should add something like this.