Writing Documents in Joomla
More and more clients provide us with MS Word .doc format file documents to go up on their websites. Sort of deja vu. Makes me remember the ole days of the ’90s when web mastering meant hand coding content into plain html files and ftp-ing them up to the server.
Today we’re so much addicted to web2.0 with our Joomla! CMS installed sites and Wordpress blog systems. Offering the client a backend/frontend administration interface that she is able to access via her browser. Simple and elegant. Somehow like using MS Word by remote. Yes, can’t remember how many times a day I have to repeat this phrase. So writing yet another blog about it. Will focus mainly on the Joomla CMS document writing because Wordpress blogging is such a no-brainer anyway…
Ms. and Mr. Client,
You’ve already got the link to www.yoursite.com - that one hosted on moonkah.net, right. Go login. Notice in the ‘User Menu’ there’s a link leading you to an edit/write article page. Click on it and you’re watching your new online clone of MS Word. Joomla Content Management is using AJAX technology (soooo… fashionable web2.0) to provide online users -with appropriate rights- the ability to create, edit and publish rich format documents, including text, images and videos. The thing is called TinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor - aka. ‘little MS Word-like what you see is what you get editor’.
When you plan to leave paper behind (forget about Gmail Paper, we’re already in April) then you gotta get accustomed with TinyMCE instead of MS Word, because it brings your data (texts, images, charts, videos, podcasts) up to the world (wide web) right after you’ve checked ‘Publish’ and clicked ‘Save’.
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