Ideally, a WYSIWYG editor in a CMS should only allow users to use bold, italics, links, and perhaps insert small images. Anything more than that, and your web pages end up looking like MySpace/GeoCities.
Ideally, a WYSIWYG editor in a CMS should only allow users to use bold, italics, links, and perhaps insert small images. Anything more than that, and your web pages end up looking like MySpace/GeoCities.
I'm not a designer, but my feeling here is that designers wouldn't appreciate the workflow you're suggesting. Any designers here who'd like to weigh in?
Who says you can't merely reuse the same basic workflows that have been refined by professional designers, augmented with general-purpose mixed visual-textual scripting? That sounds like a winning strategy to me.
Designers ''do'' learn ad-hoc batch processing tools for image transformation and publication of the final work; having those standardized would be a net win.