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Hi there, I’m relatively new to website development, getting in to help it designing a niche site for a pal. There are about 15 pages into the site in most of, styled with external css style sheets, nothing fancy, quite simply text with photographs. But, we wanted my friend to be able to make changes towards text, including maybe some embellishments (bolding etc) along with headers, but without them having to know html (other than, say paragraph, h1, h2 etc). The initial attempt involved getting rid of the text areas as plain text message files, and then topping and tailing these considering the relevant html parts using simple php pieces of software. The theory ended up being that these text files could possibly be edited in notepad or even any simple text editor and the whole site then re-built because of the php scripts. But – this couldn’t work. We recommended more " wysiwyg-ness" than the plain text data gave. So, we tried a simple wysiwyg editor (CoffeeCup as it happens) to update the. html information. Several issues right here: any changes made weren’t reflected in the actual plain text files – so the php system in order to " … Continue reading →