Ephox News & Articles

The hardest part of writing web content is making it standards compliant to allow all visitors to use your site and for those with mobile devices to view it properly. The latest version of Ephox's (news, site) EditLive! allows even non-technical users to create standards-compliant content, accessible to all.

IBM’s (news site) Lotus Web Content Management System is to ship with a second HTML editor following the announcement of a new OEM partnership with Ephox, the web content authoring software developer of EditLive.

According to Ephox (news,site), the new editor is for non-technical business users who do not know how to manipulate HTML and who are likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future.

Time to make authoriing content in Lotus Quickr quick and easy. IBM and Ephox have announced the integration of EditLive into IBM's collaboration software, Lotus Quickr. This is just another integration in a long line of integrations for EditLive.

Recently, Ephox, a provider of authoring software for web content, announced the latest release of its online rich text, WYSIWYG editor, EditLive!

Everyone loves to make their software easy for the non-technical user. Probably, because the non-technical user is usually the one making the decisions. If we make them think that they could “quickly” and “easily” do anything, they feel more empowered.

We often bring you news of financial successes and troubles of content management vendors in the industry. This time, happy cheers come from a related product line — online HTML editor tools — produced by Ephox. With the line up of integration partners, it’s no wonder they are doing well.

Some time ago Forrester pointed out that the biggest obstacle to “realizing ROI with (Enterprise) web CMS projects” is the failure of users to adopt the product and integrate it into their daily work lives.

Does that sound surprising? Probably not.

Here’s the real surprise: we can guide users to more productive behavior. Gilbane Group promises to show us how.

But to get there, prepare to think long and hard about web usability; in particular, how it can bring users what they want.