Monthly Archives: May 2011

WYSIWYG Rich Text Editors: Your CMS’s Achilles’ heel

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Gabe Sumner

Most of what you read online flows through web-based (browser-based) WYSIWYG Rich Text editors.  These tools are central to every CMS and enable content authors, who might know little about HTML, to create HTML. However, content authors are often baffled by … Continue reading →

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DO NOT use font styling in your Rich Text WYSIWYG editor

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Gabe Sumner

This web page looks the way it does because of a combination of HTML and CSS.  These 2 technologies are the primary languages of the web.  However, very few people who publish web content know HTML & CSS.  This is … Continue reading →

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Modifying the width of the CKEditor Styles dropdown

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Gabe Sumner

CKEditor comes included with a handy-dandy style selector: Unfortunately this style selector defaults to a very small width.  This small width can result in larger styles being truncated: Thankfully this can be fixed with a couple of custom styles:

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