"EditMe is the best way you can setup a successful collaboration website. Fast, cheap, easy to use... it has been the only way I have been able to get some content out of my users."

A lifestyle automation and cutting edge product design firm, AlbenDas conceives, selects and distributes automation and entertainment solutions for unique homes and buildings. If you're building a unique home and absolutely need something that's one of a kind, AlbenDas creates solutions with a high aesthetical and functional specification for those who want to seemlessly integrate technology into their daily living.

In other words, you need to see it, touch it, and experience it to understand what AlbenDas does. Describing it with words doesn't do justice. So how did they create a successful collaboration site using EditMe to describe how to improve the way work gets done, and showcase work in progress with clients? Let's find out from Benigno Calvo Adiego in this first edition of a regularly updating Spotlight On series of blog posts.

Why do you use EditMe?

There are many reasons. In descending order of importance for us, they are:

1. Ease of use. Otherwise, users won't contribute to the site. I learned this is from experience, having tried other tools before.
2. Security and Access layers. As a company, we needed a product that would allow us to create different layers of content with different visibility. Visitors, Customers, Special Customers, AlbenDas Staff and Administrators.
3. Completeness. Out of the box, functionality-wise the product offers a lot of what we recognized as a basic need.
4. Customization. It can adapt to whatever look and feel you desire.
5. Expandability. It allows for expandability, letting you create new stuff or import and use widgets.
6. Price.

How did you it before using EditMe?

We didn't, because we simply couldn't make it happen, mainly because of the ease of use. We tried with other CMS's, such as Typo3, and then tried with wikis allowing for access control such as Foswiki. Both are great products, but not that easy to use by non-tech people.

What's your favorite thing about EditMe?

Again - Ease of use.

What would make the experience better for you?

I'd like some of the tech stuff in it, such as being able to use markdown language to create content.

How do you describe EditMe to friends and colleagues?

Best way you can setup a successful collaboration website. Fast, cheap, easy to use... it has been the only way I have been able to get some content out of my users.