Mainstay's JustEdit and JustEdit Pro

Okay, different scenario...you're going to be out of the office for a week on vacation, and you need somebody to update the intro paragraph, along with the daily sale item on the company web site. The only person that's available to do it doesn't know a thing about HTML, let alone the programs you usually use to edit the site. Enter JustEdit Pro. Like JustEdit, JustEdit Pro uses a simple web browser interface, and it can be used anywhere you have access to an internet connection and a web browser. But while JustEdit requires the user to be at least comfortable working directly in HTML code, JustEdit Pro take the complexity completely out of the editing process. Users can only edit specific sections of pages, and it's as easy as filling out a simple form.

With JustEdit Pro you have the option of editing the whole page, as with JustEdit, but you also have two additional options:

• Field edit - this enables the user to edit small pre-selected areas of your site using a simple form
• Paragraph Edit - this enables the user to edit complete paragraphs

Setting up JustEditPro isn't a super quick task, that is unless you're only setting up one or two fields to be edited. You must use the basic editing feature of JustEdit Pro and edit the page, select the area to become the "field," and click the Add button. This lets you select the name for the field, and the default value. Once this task is done, however, it's a simple matter of changing the parameters of the applet on the login page. While you can place more than one editing applet on the login page, you can only edit one specific page per applet without changing the parameters again. In the end, although the setup is tedious, once it is done, the person using JustEdit Pro is shielded from that process, and only sees and uses the simple form interface.

JustEdit Plus 1.0: Fill in the Blanks Editing
$99.95
Online Demo http://www.justedit.mstay.com/plus/
Demo Version http://mstay.com/download.html

Mainstay also recently debutted OmniEdit.com, a web site which provides a free service that lets users edit their web pages anytime, anywhere, from a web browser interface. To use the OmniEdit service, a user visits the OmniEdit.com web site, enters their FTP name, password, and path for any of their own pages. A text editor window then opens, displaying the HTML code to be edited. After making any changes, the user just clicks the "Save" button and the page is updated. OmniEdit's security is consistant with the security of a user's current FTP client, and is more like a transparent FTP client embedded in a Web page. Like traditional FTP clients, a name and a password are required for read/write access to Web pages, and no details are stored either on the browser or on the OmniEdit Web site.

If I had any suggestions for Mainstay to make the JustEdit products better, it would be to create the option of using a non-Java interface for setting up the fields and paragraphs on pages. Then once they have been edited, they can be sent up to the server using normal methods. This would speed up the initial process, and take the tedious part out of the task.

There you have it! Mainstay has created a tool that can save your professional life, stop you from having a crisis, and enable both the web developer or the non-developer to edit web pages using a standard web browser! Can't beat that.

Mainstay's JustEdit / JustEdit Pro

Download: http://mstay.com/download.html http://mstay.com/justedit_promo/index.html

Price:$49.95 / $99.95

Mainstay's JustEdit and JustEdit Pro
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