WEBSITE LETS YOU EDIT WEBSITES
Dreamweaver may sound like the name of a famous song but spelled
as one word, it's a MacroMedia application for designing websites.
Another popular website designer is FrontPage from Microsoft. These
applications among others are primarily used by professional website
developers and as such require a good deal of knowledge in order to
be effectively utilized. If you don't want to take the time to learn
how to use these kinds of programs, chances are you'll hire a web
designer to do the work for you. But what I'd like to focus on here
is the maintenance of your website. After it's done, you'll probably
need to update the text or change some of the images from time to
time. Instead of paying someone to keep making those changes for
you, I have a way that will let you do it yourself and you don't
need to buy any software to do it.
Edit.com is a website that has been designed as an alternative
solution to your website maintenance requirements. Offering a do it
yourself process, you can easily change things like text,
formatting, images, links and more. Of course you'll probably still
need the services of your developer for more extensive modifications
but with Edit.com, you'll be able to make simple, everyday changes
whenever the need arises.
Edit.com is actually a service to which you subscribe. The
initial process requires you to register your website's address with
Edit.com which can be done online. After registration, Edit.com will
require access to your website so that they can add a few lines of
invisible HTML code. HTML is the programming language used to create
a website. After the code is added, you're all set. Just log in from
any location and a special password gives you the special editing
features you'll need to make any changes. Best of all, you do not
need to know anything about HTML programming to make changes to your
website.
Once you log in, you basically see your live website as it
normally appears. But now you can make changes in much the same way
as you would edit a word processing document. An editing toolbar
appears above your live pages. Just click on the "Edit mode"
checkbox and you can directly edit the web page. You can add and
delete text, drag and highlight any portion, and apply styling such
as bold and italic. When the changes appear exactly like you intend,
you simply click the save icon and the changes are immediately
applied. Graphic images can be added or repositioned on the page by
just dragging them to the desired area. Again you get to preview the
entire page before saving it.
Edit.com requires that you pay a monthly fee as they are an
on-going service that supplies technical support to help you through
any problems you may have. The company offers offer a "pay as you
go" service plan starting at $25, or an unlimited editing plan at
$15 per month. There is a $75 one-time fee if you choose their full
service setup.
Edit.com is not for someone who is looking to have a website
designed from scratch. That's what Dreamweaver and FrontPage are
for. But if you find yourself constantly wanting to make frequent
changes, then you probably know that your website designer's fees
for making those changes can be very expensive. Plus they may not
always available at the drop of a hat to make those minor
alterations for you. If you ever find yourself wishing that you
could just do it yourself, with something like Edit.com you can now
make those changes yourself and do it for a lot less money. Granted
you're going to keep your developer on tap when the need arises for
complex design alterations. But for simple editing jobs, you may
find that something like Edit.com offers a viable alternative.
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