Manila

About Manila

Manila is really more of a content management system for web servers than a web editor. It is best if you have a website and need to allow non-technical people to edit or maintain it. But it's not so good for professional developers wanting to create a new website from scratch. The price also puts it out of range for most individuals and even some small businesses.

Target Market(s): Small Business Owners

Review last updated: November 1, 2011.

Manila Version: 9.6
Score: 53
Percent: 16%
This score was generated using the methodology listed in the article: Finding the Perfect Web Editor.

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Operating System(s): Windows Macintosh

Manila Features

• WYSIWYG editor
• Page preview
• FTP or Site manager
• Search and replace
• Database connectivity
• Edit XML and/or RSS
• Writes to blogs
• Free templates
• Version control
• Support for teams editing the site (beyond version control)
• Free trial
• No limits on free or trial version
• No subscription fee required
• Really more of a CMS than a web editor

What’s Missing from Manila

• Text editor
• HTML validator
• Accessibility validator
• CSS validator
• XML validator
• Alternate browser or OS preview
• Mobile device preview
• Mobile scripts, functions, or links
• Create mobile web applications
• Package mobile apps for delivery on app stores
• Save pages as HTML with DTD
• Write HTML 5 documents
• Write XHTML documents
• Color coding
• Tag completion
• FTPs or Secure FTP
• Extended search and replace (across multiple documents)
• Edit multiple files/tabbed file editing
• Edit images
• Connects to graphics software
• Multimedia functions
• Assistance with adding videos to websites
• Ability to add video and audio using HTML5 with fallback options
• Save Adobe AIR files
• Save files as PDF
• Link checker
• Special character tools
• Can edit JavaScript
• Helps with Ajax JSON, or jQuery pages
• Can edit CSS
• Additional CSS assistance
• CSS 3 properties and selectors
• CSS3 media queries tools built-in
• Can edit PHP, ASP, or JSP
• Dynamic page rendering and editing with server-side programming languages (PHP, JSP, ASP, CFM, etc.)
• Google sitemaps
• Spell checking
• Save snippets of code
• Free scripts
• Form wizard
• Photo gallery builder
• Ecommerce tools
• SEO assistance built-in
• Captcha support or other methods of protecting forms
• Customizable or extendable

Full price: $1,099.00 Upgrade price: no

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