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I'm yet to find the right way to have clients "buy in" to the concept of limited wysiwig functionality, as it can be hard to explain what they're gaining in ret
by djs070 13y ago
I'm yet to find the right way to have clients "buy in" to the concept of limited wysiwig functionality, as it can be hard to explain what they're gaining in return without long-ish term exposure to the underlying technologies. Maybe an open-source document would be handy to help us get the key points across to "content peoeple"?
- smacktoward 13y agoIn my experience there's no silver bullet way to sell it, but there are some ways that work depending on who your audience is. If the audience is management, the gain is control. "You just spent umpty million dollars redesigning your visual identity, you don't want some low-level copy jockey deciding to throw all that out and publish a page on your site entirely in Comic Sans, right?" If the audience is the people who actually have to use the software, the gain is simplicity. "Look at this editing window from your current system. It has four toolbars, with fifteen buttons on each one! Do you really know what all those buttons do? Do you really want to be responsible to your boss if you hit the wrong one and screw something up? Now look at this other editing window. Isn't it clean? Doesn't it look easy to use?"
- dools 13y agoWe're creating a way to provide a truly wysiwyg experience whilst allowing the designer to impose structure and constraints through html and css: http://www.decalcms.com/tour/ http://www.decalcms.com/tour/ what do you think?