Websites Anyone Can Edit!
What is Edit this Page?
How Can You Get Edit this Page?
That's the easy part, it comes as a standard feature within UserLand Manila. Every page and every seperate section of a Manila-built webpage is easily edited, using Edit this Page. Those with your organization that have editing priviledges will see a small box located beneath every section of text on a webpage. (Slide Show) When an editor sees something that needs updating, they need only click the Edit this Page button, make the necessary changes, save the page and then go back to browsing. That's it, the change has been made in three easy steps. No web content managment system could be easier to use. Talk about a time saver! And just think about the cost savings!
With Manila and Edit this Page, there is no need to mess with the file systems, editors, FTP programs, and hard to remember URLs. Content editors can edit without having to know the first thing about HTML. And you can't lose anything because once you've found a web page, you've found the only thing you need to manage your content. Experts agree, Edit this Page is one feature that cuts the complexity and the cost of creating web content by several orders of magnitude.
Workflow Management
Manila also acts as a file administrator. As soon as someone with editing priviledges clicks Edit This Page, Manila marks that item as being "checked out", meaning someone is working on it. Manila keeps a list of checked out items that includes the Message number, the name of the person editing each one and the time they started editing.
If someone tries to edit an item on the checked out list, they see a message explaining that it's already being edited. As soon as the person working on that page posts her changes, Manila removes the item from the checked out list and it then becomes available to others. Manila also tracks the time spent editing an item and will automatically check it back in again after a certain time. This is in case someone starts to edit and changes their mind, or perhaps goes home for the day after starting to edit. A Managing Editor can also force items to be checked in.
Conclusion
Now it would be nice to fill up a whole page singing the praises of Edit this Page, but we've already done that here. It's so simple, so obvious and yet so amazing -- with Edit this Page, anyone can edit a website. Go ahead and try it. UserLand offers a no-obligation free hosted trial version of Manila. Just click here to get started.
