About Thinkedit

Intro

If you need to manage a website, ThinkEdit might be a good solution for you. Installing it will take you 5 minutes, so it won't take long to check if it fits your needs.

ThinkEdit stores content in a database, this is why it must be installed.

Requirements

Download

You can download the software at [[downloads]]. It is available as a zip file. Simply unzip this file within your webserver public folder (something like /www/ or /htdocs/ or /web/). As your system administrator or a friend if you don't know where to put those files. You can use ftp to copy the files.

In the rest of this doc, we assume that you will install ThinkEdit on your local computer, so the server will be located at http://localhost/thinkedit (replace localhost with your domain name if needed)

Note that you can also dowload the latest development release using SVN (the SVN project is hosted at berlios.de, go to http://developer.berlios.de/svn/?group_id=5192 for more infos )

Install

Once copied, go to http://localhost/thinkedit/install (or http://www.yourdomain/thinkedit/install)

First login

Go to http://localhost/thinkedit/edit (simply append /edit to where your site is installed). There you can click on the "structure" menu.

There you can add pages, publish them, delete them, re-order them, ... We will write a separate user guide. In the mean time, discover !

This "administration view" is only available to the administrators of the site, that is, the content producers of your website.

Now, let's see what happens for your visitors :

Public side

Go to http://localhost/thinkedit/ and see