Beyond Paper

Edit in Place

A client wanted to be able to change her quote of the day easily. She is extremely techniphobic, so I wanted something she could just click and type into. I came up with this goodie.

Check out the demo, but basically I used the power of Prototype and Scriptaculous to create an editable paragraph. I saved the editable version of her page in a password-protected folder (no admin functions - just protected via simple .htpassword). She can click to edit a paragraph.

The public-facing version of her site is not clickable, of course, and simple inserts the editable paragraph.

The cool thing is, I wrote the code to be expandable - it targets an element by id - so you could have several elements on a page that are editable.

While this wouldn’t work for a large site, for a brochure-type site it is an ideal way for a non-technical person to be able to make text changes without learning an editing program.

I’m offering this script for a flat-rate just like I do for validating forms.  Contact me for pricing.  Requires a MySQL database, but can piggyback on another, existing one.