And yes, Brad’s review (above) does a great job of introducing you to the system.

-Max

I for one will be using this tool for many of my clients in the future.

For the poster who suggest that this is too low-tech for TechCrunch to give online real estate to - give me a break. It is a tech tool designed for a specific market - the non-cyber savvy - not the heavy hitters in the industry. IOW, for real people, not cyber-jocks such as yourself.

For the poster who mentioned that custom designed websites are a thing of the past - think again. I sell more custom website designs than any other type of design work and my services are becoming more popular, not less. Templates work for some, but many small businesses care about differentiating their brand from their competitors - enough so that I make a very good living providing custom designs for them.

For the poster who mentioned that static pages are not used for “serious websites” - you are an arrogant snob. All of my clients are very serious about presenting information about their businesses on the web, no matter how small their businesses or website might be. Static pages serve this need just as well as dynamic pages, if not better from an SEO perspective. Neither browsers nor users care what lies behind the visuals - as long as it renders properly and works functionally, the type of coding and/or programming used is irrelevant.

I’ve designed websites for small and medium sized business for 10 years now. Most clients don’t know or want to know how to maintain their website. Most open-source CMS tools are over-developed and too complicated for this segment of the market.

This is a great tool and fills a need.

The Javascript command that I listed on line 21 allows you to edit a page, ANY page. Paste it into the URL line of this web page, for example, press enter or go, and then start editing the page.

See http://www.digg.com/programmin.....mages_Text (not an original idea)

Of course you can’t save the page. I was just offering a free alternative as a joke.

I think Lite is just a teaser to show off their awesome editor… I mean, it’s one of the few that makes super clean code, encourages good semantics, while still being WYSIWYG.

I personally have had the opportunity to test out Typeroom on my website and what I found about it is once I get the basic familiarity with the functions I no longer need to call my web designer for a simple news update or a small change in information.

To me this product is fantastic as it adds the ability to have constantly new content on a website without the unneeded third party designer.

Techcrunch really does not have a handle on this world of CMS. They’ve posted this mention for a very mundane product, and then Duncan admits that it’s probably best used for his mother!

Is this a Techcrunch quality product? A product that you can’t even justify would be useful to the majority of people who build Web sites (designers, developers, businesses)? Is this the new “mom CMS”? Big audience there.

The commentors here know more about this industry that you, Duncan. If you’re going to post about CMS, why don’t you learn about the issues that exist in the market?

- hundreds of pages
- separate design from content
- various permission levels
- sharing content
- etc. etc.

They don’t even have users to justify their product will succeed!

As someone who is building a CMS product, and who has submitted their product for honest review by your staff, this posting is almost offensive. It’s your Web site but as a loyal Techcrunch reader this posting either smells of ignorance about the industry or a friend helping a friend—and both smells make me wary of reding anything on here.

We set up a 10-page site for a customer, which they could edit using a tool like this (homegrown). They could even create new pages.

The site grew to 200 pages. Then they wanted to change the menu. On every page. and a few styles.

Normal sites with CSS and a central navigation area and a central template would be simple to make massive changes to. Tools like this (it appears) make each page a separate entity, with no common elements! (Look up DRY principle!)

Not to mention that customer would try unusual things like creating web contact forms themselves, and wonder why they don’t work.

Good luck with this bad idea.

Why not just tell them to paste this into their Address Bar? (try it, all one line)

javascript:document.body.contentEditable=’true’; document.designMode=’on’; void 0

The “lite” version is definitely meant for simpler websites with the main advantage being that 1. it is instant and 2. there is a free version that does not require (or allow) http://FTP. We will be posting a screencast on Typeroom Lite soon to show this in more detail. (Will be posted on http://www.typeroom.com/blog )

After operating a web design / development business for 5 years, I can tell you that there are still plenty of straight HTML/CSS that need updating.

The “pro” version won’t be a total replacement for Joomla or Drupal…at least not yet…but definitely accounts for “serious websites”. This system (as well as Lite) is built to co-exist easily with other applications easily like blogs, carts, forums, etc.

@15, 19: browser>file>”save as”?

http://tekno-world.blogspot.com

FTP / many people don’t have the first clue on how to http://ftp. 90% of website owners (who didn’t build it themselves) don’t even know their FTP credentials