Web Content Editor: what is it?

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Web content refers to material created for the World Wide Web, including individual files and entire pages. A web content editor can be a program for creating and editing content or a complete Web Content Management System (WCMS). Features vary by content type, such as music, images, and text. A WCMS includes tools for creating and editing text, markup language, layout capabilities, and basic word processing tools. It may also include hyperlink, button, frame, and box insertion.

The phrase web content refers to material created for or on the World Wide Web. It can refer to individual files made for the Web, such as a Flash® video, text prepared for Web display using HyperText Markup Language (HTML), or entire pages . A web content editor is a software tool that can provide functionality that allows users to create, organize, markup, format, and publish web content, as well as edit it. That is, the term web content editor can refer to a program in which you simply create and edit content and export a file, or to a complete Web Content Management System (WCMS). A Content Management System is a software program for creating and managing website content.

A software program that is billed as a web content editor and designed for creating and editing individual files is often an online tool. It can be designed to create and edit music, screen captures, audio, vector images, PNG or Flash®. Features vary by content type, so, for example, a music editor may allow the user to create tracks using a variety of instruments, adjust tempo and beats per measure, and control volume. With instruments in tune, samples of distinct pitches can be offered, and the user can solo or mute tracks.

With a web content editor for images, on the other hand, there may be the ability to import an image or create an image using drawing tools such as shapes, lines and brushes, with a greater or lesser selection of tools available, depending on the program. The selection of colors and patterns can also be limited or extensive. Some programs may have rotate and flip functionality.

A web content editor that is a WCMS is likely to include a set of tools for creating and editing text, tools for marking up text in HTML, XHTML (EXtended HTML), or some other markup language, and may also include layout capabilities for text, images, and in some but not all cases, table capabilities. A WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor can be the main window or an alternate view, sometimes called a “Thumbnail,” but some web content editors do a very poor job of accurately showing the layout of the page. For editing text, such a web content editor usually includes basic tools recognized by word processing programs, such as “Cut”, “Paste”, “Indent”, “Center Text”, “Justify Text”, “Points bet”. Text, “Numbered Text” and font, format and style choices and the software will render them as HTML or another language of choice. Hyperlink insertion, button insertion, frame insertion, and box insertion may also be displayed. Web content editors of this type are often used for sites that have collections of similar material, such as blogs, chat rooms, forums, web encyclopedias, wikis, and more.




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