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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. go to the contact page.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
People should be directed to the project so they can report issues with the 
software.

Please use labels and text to provide additional information.
Direct contact of Cameron and Andrew through the software is no longer 
desirable. Instead people should come here if they have any issues with the 
software.

The ComfyPage editor does not display a true wysiwyg interface, it instead 
opens an editing window through which users can edit relevant text, which is OK.

Our editor accessed at http://www.making-websites-made-simple.com/login.html 
does present a true wysiwyg interface, although even then clients find it 
difficult to use as they lack confidence, and it is not 100% foolproof because 
clients can mess things up too easily. 

The most successful editors that I have seen used by clients, simply provide 
the users with very simple form areas through which to enter text and image 
calls, plus some basic html tags such as <bold> etc which then get added to the 
relevant page areas when the client clicks save. I have seen success with this 
type of approach on a couple different systems, which makes me wonder if it may 
possibly be the best way to enable clients to edit their own website pages.

Most clients have absolutely zero confidence when editing website pages, and 
limiting them to adding text through very simple form areas may possibly be the 
only effective way that many will initially be able to cope with editing their 
website pages. It is all down to how much effort individuals are prepared to 
put into learning how to operate a website editor. My experience after taching 
hundreds if people is that most individuals are not willing to put much effort 
into learning how to do that.

However, everyone is different. Some individuals will only edit pages that are 
as easy to edit as facebook pages, while others will be willing to edit pages 
using more flexible applications, and some will even learn how to create some 
html code. I have taught a number of clients how to use Kompozer, and they are 
all OK with that so long as all they need to do is edit simple text blocks, 
anything beyond that usually becomes far too difficult for them to cope with.

File names are very important to the search engines in regard to page 
optimisation, ranking and promotion.

A page name such as green-tree-frog.html is far more likely to obtain relevant 
high ranking at the search engines for a page about the Green Tree Frog than 
will a page about the Green Tree Frog which is named index.php?content_id=4.

Also, I suspect that a website with multiple pages named index.php etc will 
confuse the search engines, and is highly likely to inhibit a website's 
potential to achieve high ranking.

The editor used in ComfyPage has been updated. It can be downloaded from 
http://ckeditor.com/

We should update the version distributed with ComfyPage. There are some 
modification like the ability to display a list of pages when inserting a link 
that need to be recreated in the new version.