Live Edit

Live Edit is extremely easy to use

Live Edit allows you to edit your website directly in any web browser and you can see how the content is changing as you work. With this application it’s easy to edit the content of your website from any browser. You decide which areas should be edited through the browser and which ones should be handled in Sitoo Web.

Multiple users are able to modify the website

You can allow to several people to update the website from different locations which makes it easy to add information to your website and keep it alive. You decide which users will get personal login information in order to have access to edit the website.

Update your website from any computer

Live Edit is a web based application so you’ll be able to update your website wherever you are as long as you have an Internet connection. Now it’s easy to update your website at any time.

Easy to get the content right without formatting problems

With Live Edit it’s easy for the user to update the content and keep a nice formatting. The design has been previously defined in Sitoo Web. All the elements like text styles, the size of the headings and the margins are already set. This way you’ll be able to update your website without any formatting mistakes.

Live Edit supports all common file types

It’s common that you wish to provide external files to the visitors of your website such as PDF documents, movies, sound files, spreadsheets etc. Live Edit supports all common file types and makes it easy to insert files in your website.

Links to external and internal web pages

It’s easy to add links to external websites and it’s even easier to link to internal pages through shortcuts for all pages included in the website.

Smooth image import

Live Edit provides functionality to optimize images for the web. Images from a digital camera are often too large to be inserted on a website. Live Edit helps you to reduce and adjust the size of your images for the web.

Alternativ text for all your images

Search engines such as Google are not able to interpret an image so it is important to enter an alternative text for every image on the website. With Live Edit it’s easy to insert a text which describes what the image represents and the description should be written in a search engine optimization perspective.

Linking images

With Live Edit it’s easy to link an image to an internal or external web page. This function can be useful in lots of different contexts.

Live Edit gives you lots of different possibilities

To embed code in your website means that you can copy and paste HTML from an external website to your own. This is the way to go if you wish to show Google Maps or a video from YouTube on your website. Live Edit has a dialog for editing and pasting code from different sources on the Internet.

Example - Video from YouTube

You can easily insert a video from YouTube on your website copying the code you find in the field “Embed” and paste it in the Code Editor in Live Edit. The video will be shown on your website.

Example - Integrate your Facebook page

Allow the visitors of your website to be part of what’s happening on your Facebook page. This way you’ll be able to reach not only those who are not familiar with Facebook but also the ones who are interested in your website who will follow you in Facebook as well. All you need is to define the appearance of the so called ”Like box” in Facebook and copy the code. Then paste it in the Code Editor in Live Edit. View example here »

Example - Map from Google Maps

You have probably seen maps from Google Maps on several websites. It is very easy to embed a custom map in your website. Just visit the Google Maps website, enter the address you want and go to "Link" to the right just above the map. Copy the HTML code in the field: "Paste HTML to embed in website" and paste it in the Code Editor in Live Edit.