contexte is the most professional browser-based WYSIWYG editor available.

contexte is designed to give the site designer control while allowing other users safe editing capabilities. A robust backup system is built-in with roll-back previews and roll-back overwrites.

With advanced features not found on other WYSIWYG editors, contexte is compatible with Explorer-7+, Chrome-8+, Firefox-3+, Safari-3+, and Opera-9+, (Windows & Mac) producing W3C compliant code for HTML/XHTML markup. contexte can install on Linux/Apache or Windows/IIS servers.

contexte can edit plain html pages, or pages containing dynamic content like drop-down menus, flash, or server-side includes without mangling the dynamic content. contexte uses block editing concepts with editblocks, userblocks, includeblocks, and excludeblocks to control what can be edited on a page, and who can edit it.

See the Features page for a list of tools that are not found on other WYSIWYG editors!

Although site owners can use contexte to maintain their website, contexte is built to give a site designer control over editing done by users who have no experience with HTML or web design.

• Desktop software design: Manage a website as if it was in a program on your desktop instead of through a webpage-like interface.
  

• 3 basic types of users:
  • User can edit any page on website
  • User can edit only a list of pages
  • User can edit only pages inside of a folder tree.

• Full control over what tools and features are available to each user from an Admin Control Panel. The “admin” can also control if a user can create new folders, delete folders, delete files, or rename files.
  

• Limit users to using only a set of site-wide colors or, a full range of colors using built-in ColorPad.
  

• Insert images, audio, tables, forms submitted to email, image galleries, image slide-shows, SWF Flash, site search engine.
  

• Optionally allow users HTML source code editing in limited parts of a page.

contexte will run on any browser that supports the “contentEditable” attribute.

contexte will run on any Unix or Windows server that supports Perl. contexte is normally run from an /contexte folder, but may be run from a cgi-bin if your server requires it.