CMS Launch

Web designers:
Have you ever had a client copy and paste content directly from Word into your CMS’ editor… only to have a whole bunch of Microsoft garbage html markup ruin your otherwise beautiful site?

I’ve come to the conclusion that clients do what they do… and it’s not their job to learn the “ways of the web”. It’s my job to make things work regardless of whether my clients follow my precise instructions.

Besides…

Not only is this your dream… but your clients’ dream too.

After all, they don’t enjoy calling you up to “fix” a problem that shouldn’t have occurred in the first place. They already feel like a nincompoop (sp?) for having to call you for help and now they have to listen to you tell them that they did something “wrong” by pasting from Word.

You hang up the phone thinking the client is too lazy to follow simple directions… while they hang up the phone thinking that maybe they hired the wrong “web guy”.

I think I’ve got a solution for you…

My code fixes 99% of the issues you’ll get with “copy and paste from Word nightmares” so that you get a great result even when the client does everything “wrong”.

Check it out…

Video: Word Nightmares Be Gone

In the next few days, I’m going to be offering a beta test version to anyone interested.

There are some minor requirements for the test, which most of you will already have in place:

1-Hosting account running Apache Linux (.htaccess needed for this test)
2-Safe mode off (server setting your host uses - commonly off)
3-dl() function enabled (common)

If you want to test out your site ahead of time, you could run this code:

<?php
if( !(bool)ini_get( "enable_dl" ) || (bool)ini_get( "safe_mode"
) ) {
die( "Loading extensions is not permitted.\n" );
}
?>


The reason for the last two has to do with the encryption method for the beta test software. I don’t have to encrypt the code, but I am - and I’m using Ioncube.

One of the decisions I’m wrestling with is protection of the source code:

1- No encryption
2- Encrypt using Ioncube - which works on most servers
3- Ponying up the money for a Zend license so that folks could choose Ioncube or Zend, with a virtual guarantee that one (if not both) will work on their server.

I’m leaning towards option 3.