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Blogosphere: EditMe is a Wiki with Teeth

2008-07-25
Boston-area interactive marketing blogger Matthew Mamet recently featured EditMe in a blog post about wikis. He touches on the unique power of EditMe's JavaScript API...

Having full CRUD access over all data and wiki functionality really makes a difference. It’s possible to build permission based content authoring tools all the way up to a full fledged CMS right within your personal wiki. EditMe has been able to pull off integration of this powerful API within a “normal” wiki environment. You don’t have to take advantage of it if you don’t want to. The familiar wiki content editing rules apply. However, with access to the API at every price level - you’re getting a powerful toolset at any price." Read the full post...

Staff Lounge: Follow EditMe on Twitter

2008-07-21
I've created a Twitter account to track EditMe events that occur between these blog posts. The Twitter posts will contain announcements, development status updates, minor maintenance updates, tips and other information that customers may find useful but that don't necessarily call for a post here. If you have a Twitter account, I encourage you to follow along. Don't worry, you won't get notified about what I'm having for dinner. Read the full post...

Staff Lounge: A Survey of Custom Development Projects

2008-07-15
A few prospective customers have asked what kind of projects EditMe's Custom Development team has done. It's a good question, and one that I thought warranted an answer on the web site. Here are a few of the more interesting projects we've completed within the past several months, grouped by project size. Read the full post...

Developers: API Changes & Email Notification Customization

2008-07-04
Several new API methods and properties have been released, and email notifications can now be customized at the site level using a scripted page (for programmers only). If you don't have programming skills (or time on your hands) and would like your email notifications customized, please contact sales with the details of what you'd like changed for pricing. Read the full post...

Tip of the Knows: Fun with Favicons, RSS and Edit Buttons

2008-06-30
Web sites can display an increasing variety of icons in a browser's address bar by including special tags in the HEAD area of the HTML document. You may have noticed that the main EditMe sites have light bulb favicons. A favicon is an icon image associated with a web site. Almost all modern browsers will display your favicon in the toolbar or favorites/bookmarks menu. It's an easy and effective way to add branding and visual appeal to your site. You may also notice that this site displays an RSS icon in the toolbar (or elsewhere, depending on your browser). You can link to your site's built in RSS feed to display such an icon for visitors and encourage them to subscribe to the site's feed. And just for wikis, a new "Edit This Page" icon is gaining traction. This article shows you how to add all three of these to your EditMe site. Read the full post...

Product Release: Site Export Module

2008-06-24
A new module was released today that allows site administrators to easily export the content from their site for archival and/or off-line browsing purposes. Until now, EditMe has provided a MySQL/Zip backup for download from sites on a Professional or better plan. That mechanism is considered a premium service because of the need to essentially store a second copy of the site on our servers. For browsable backups of the site, we've pointed users to HTTrack, an open source application designed to create off-line copies of web sites. The power and complexity of HTTrack can be daunting, and so many customers have requested something simpler. We're glad to finally heed that request. Read the full post...

Case Study: Harris Stratex Networks, Inc.

2008-06-19
A new case study released today highlights a custom development project for Harris Stratex Networks' corporate wiki network. As the case study explains, this customer wanted their employees to be able to enter all the product wiki sites using one login and password on one centralized page. And, as the network would become widely used throughout the company, they needed to maintain their corporate design standards. That's where EditMe's customization crew came in. EditMe worked with Harris Stratex Networks to create a "master" page that linked wikis for different Harris Stratex products. All the wikis use the same database of user names and IDs. EditMe also adapted the company's existing corporate CSS template, giving the entire network a cohesive look and feel. Read the full post...

Featured Site: The Bay State Banner

2008-05-29
One of our most significant custom development projects to date went live today. The Bay State Banner is a weekly paper that has served the Boston area's Black community since 1965. The paper's new online presence features a new issue released every week, an editor's blog, event calendar, and other interactive features. Read the full post...

Product Release: Acton Family of Skins

2008-05-27
Today EditMe released a new set of five designs that customers can apply to their sites. Dubbed the "Acton" family, the new design comes in blue, green, brown, red and gray flavors. The new skins give EditMe sites a fresh new look as well as a set of frequently requested tools to simplify design and layout customizations. Read the full post...

Product Release: Widgets and User Pages

2008-05-21
There are two new Modules available today: Widgets and User Pages. The Widgets module provides a set of tools to ease the task of importing HTML and JavaScript widgets from other sites into your EditMe site. It also provides a Page Widget that allows you export the content of any EditMe page as a widget for display in another web site. The User Pages module fills a specific need for teachers and other site administrators that need to create multiple users each with a private content page. Without this module, an administrator must create a user, a group, a policy and a page for each user. With this module, these tasks can be performed for multiple users with a single form post. Read the full post...