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SnippetMaster Pro - A review
Monday, March 13, 2006
As a web designer, I am always looking for ways to help my clients edit the content of their webpages. No-one really wants to have to pay a web designer for each and every tiny little change required, and from my perspective, it isn't really commercially viable in most instances. Software that enables my clients to edit their pages in a WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") screen, so they don't need to know any webcoding is an absolute godsend!
When looking for this solution recently, I came across SnippetMaster. It's free for the Lite Version and the Pro version costs only $24.95. Additionally, if you are a charity or other not-for-profit organisation, you can obtain the Pro version for free.
To use SnippetMaster, you need to get your web designer to install the software on a linux hosted server and insert a tiny amount of code into your existing files wherever you want to change the content. This takes approximately 5 minutes in total!
To use the software, all you need to do is log in over the internet, meaning that only authorised users can edit the website, and choose which file to edit. A handy preview function means that you can check any edits before hitting 'save' and making the changes live.
SnippetMaster rates 8/10 in my book - 1 mark deducted for only being able to use in Internet Explorer and not Firefox. A second mark is deducted as the code is not W3C (web standards) compliant. However, I do know both these issues will be addressed in the next software release, at which point it will rate 10/10!
See SnippetMaster including a live demo at www.snippetmaster.com.
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