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20 Excellent Free Rich-Text Editors

20 Excellent Free Rich-Text Editors
Rich-text editors, also known as online rich-text editors, are web components that allow users to edit and enter text within a web browser. Rich-text editors are used in numerous ways such as in enhancing your comment input form or as part of a web application that allows entry of user-generated and formatted content. Rich-text editors are essentially web-based WYSIWYG (“what you see is what you get”) editors. There are many rich-text editors out there. What’s even better than a lot of choices? Many of the best rich-text editors currently in the market are free. In this article, we present 20 exceptional (and free) rich-text editors. 1. TinyMCE is an open source (under the GNU Lesser General Public License) rich-text editor released and maintained by Moxiecode. TinyMCE |Demo | Download 2. FCKeditor is another wildly popular open source online rich-text editor (check out some of the websites that use it). FCKeditor | Demo | Download 3. NicEdit | Demo | Download BXE | Demo | Download 5. 6. 7.

10 Things To Consider When Choosing The Perfect CMS | How-To Advertisement Choosing a content management system can be tricky. Without a clearly defined set of requirements, you will be seduced by fancy functionality that you will never use. I have written about content management systems before. When I left home for university my mother taught me a valuable lesson. The same principle is true when it comes to selecting a content management system. How then do you establish your list of requirements? 1. When most people think of content management, they think of creating, deleting, editing and organizing pages. Not all blogging platforms, for example, allow the owner to manage and organize pages in a tree hierarchy. Consider carefully the basic functionality you need. Also ask yourself how easy it is to complete these tasks. 2. The editor is one core feature worth particular attention. The editor is the interface through which content is added and amended. The danger of traditional WYSIWYG editors is two-fold. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Conclusion

50 Online Tools to Convert Documents and Media Files | Technically Digital Downloading a document only to find that you do not have the application to open it can be frustrating. Thankfully however there are numerous web apps that help you out of this predicament. We have gathered 50 such online tools that help you convert not only digital documents but also images and various other media files. Read on to find the tools and see which ones suit your needs best. Audio/Video Converters KeepVid : KeepVid is an useful online utility which helps users download videos from different online streaming websites. CellSea : CellSea is another useful converter which can help users download, convert, crop and resize videos from different streaming websites. VideoDownloadX : With VideoDownloadX, users can convert and download videos from YouTube. GetYourVideo : With GetYourVideo, users can download videos from different online video streaming websites including DailyMotion, YouTube, Metacafe and many more. Document Converters Image Converters Multi-Purpose Converters

How to Choose an Open Source Content Management System by | August 2005 | Content Management One of the most frequently asked questions received at Packt is 'What is the best open source Content Management System for me?' This isn't the easiest question to answer, however we asked Chanh Ong, a computer specialist and contributor at opensourceCMS.com for his views, and this is what he had to say... I want to define a couple of important concepts before going into the detail of this topic. What is a Content Management System (CMS)? What is the scope of the document that covers CMS? What is the definition of content? And finally... Your criteria:One of the most basic steps involved in a CMS selection effort is to determine your requirements. Content or Purpose: Defining the purpose of your content is just as important as defining the content itself. Hands-on:With the above understanding of your requirements, this is where the rubber hits the road, so to speak. Research:Where should I begin? Comparison. CMS top hits. How about other kind of CMS?

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