http://www.editme.com/OfficialBlog The official blog for EditMe, the easy wiki service. en-us16 editme.com http://www.editme.com/files/OfficialBlog/100.gif http://www.editme.com/OfficialBlog 35 100 http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/codemonkeybusiness/viewblogpost.htm?p=339271041 Brendon Chase of Builder AU, a web site "by developers for developers," recently interviewed me about EditMe. From the post: "Put simply, wikis have been just too nerdy for the average punter for it to catch on in most businesses. Enter EditMe, a wiki CMS solution that you could safely give to non-geeks. While easy for end-users, the hosted solution has a powerful back-end that developers can use to customise installs via an API and allowing Server-side JavaScript." Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/codemonkeybusiness/viewblogpost.htm?p=339271041 http://www.editme.com/CustomFileUploads In anticipation of a featured interview in a popular web development blog, I thought a good developer-focused post was in order. One of the features customers frequently require on their sites is inclusion of a file upload as part of a custom form. As any web developer knows, uploading files is always a tricky subject, and there are a few different ways to skin this cat. So let's dig in. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:00:00 -0500 http://www.editme.com/CustomFileUploads http://www.editme.com/WikiForums On Friday the Questions and Suggestions pages at the Customer Support Wiki were replaced with Forums. These pages prompted discussion among wiki users and relied upon EditMe's comment mechanism for a rolling dialog. While this worked, it forced every message into a single thread. The Forums now allow each topic to have a list of replies. In addition, each topic becomes a new page on the wiki that is included in the site search. Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.editme.com/WikiForums http://www.editme.com/CaseStudyFred Our latest case study features funky product developer Fred & Friends. They are using EditMe as an extranet for their international distributors. Fred linked up some forms over at Wufoo to create a much-needed functional and informational resource in just one business day. Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.editme.com/CaseStudyFred http://matthewmamet.com/2008/07/21/editme-is-a-wiki-with-teeth/ 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. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0500 http://matthewmamet.com/2008/07/21/editme-is-a-wiki-with-teeth/ http://www.editme.com/EditMeOnTwitter 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. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:00:00 -0500 http://www.editme.com/EditMeOnTwitter http://www.editme.com/CustomDevProjects 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. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:00:00 -0500 http://www.editme.com/CustomDevProjects http://www.editme.com/Release34APIChanges2 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. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.editme.com/Release34APIChanges2 http://www.editme.com/BrowserIcons 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. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.editme.com/BrowserIcons http://www.editme.com/SiteExportModule 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. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.editme.com/SiteExportModule