2.5. Easy-to-use, powerful graphical page editor

Authors enjoy working with word processors, and CMS teams have responded with browser-based graphical HTML editors. Most solutions stop at the basics of text highlighting and image insertion, but the new release of Plone achieves a productive balance between giving users creative freedom and enforcing consistent styles and layout.

Plone includes the cross-CMS Kupu visual editor. Kupu produces standards-compliant, clean XHTML -- it can even clean up the "messy" HTML that Microsoft Word produces.  Kupu also includes a high-performance asset browser for images and links.   Kupu allows site administrators to define paragraph and text span styles, and lets users easily apply these stylesheets to their text.   Plone extends Kupu's features to include easy configuration of editor features, handling broken links, and much more.

All of this means that users will have a more familiar, desktop-style editor for editing their content.

The visual editor also has an option to hide everything but the editor itself — letting you focus on what's important: producing high-quality content.

Of course, for users that prefer to edit their content in Microsoft Word, Macromedia Dreamweaver, or other client-side programs, Plone still offers the External Editor option — allowing users to seamlessly edit web content with a client-side application. Plone can even automatically convert non-HTML content (like Microsoft Word documents) to HTML.

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