ICE – Adobe InContext Editing

October 15th, 2008 Posted by ted in Reviews, Software

Our good software engineer friends at Adobe have launched InContext Editing (ICE), which (long last) allows any user to edit directly into pages using Dreamweaver. It’s what people have been asking for since I started making web pages in 1994. Other companies like Yahoo (and their YUI tools) allow for some in-page editing, but Adobe has done it with elegance and complete breadth. I’ll be curious to see how much of the content management software market they will have in 1 year. Sign up, view a tutorial and register a site to get started. The support site is here.

In the next month or so we’re hoping to see a glimpse of another new Adobe software technology that Charles and I created and sold to Adobe. It’s quite exciting!

—- Update 12/11/09 —-

Well, it looks like Adobe ICE turned out to be a web page editor, not a content management system per se. It lets you set up singular areas that can be edited by any browser, but there’s not a robust piece of software that ties it all together as a cms. Lately we’ve been using Expression Engine, SymphonyCMS, and WordPress for many of our cms needs. But I’m excited to see what new tools arrive in the future… who knows, maybe Flash CMS tools will become popular? Ha ha ha. Yeah, right.