Show HN: Rich Text Editor Meets Drag and Drop

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Hey, I am a developer behind the Rich Builder - a "rich text meets drag & drop" editor for the web editors & developers. It is a work in progress and currently in an alpha stage. Try it out here: http://richbuild.com

"We/I" in the following description refer to the two-person team.

In short:

* This is going to be a commercial project

* We want to get some general feedback from you

Rich Builder editor goals:

* Build content fast & efficiently

* WYSIWYG, live and uninterrupted editing

* Rich & customizable widget base - focus on content creation with variety beyond linear text & images

A few highlights:

* It's platform agnostic. Initially it will plug in to WordPress, Drupal & Joomla, custom frameworks later on, too

* It can be used as is as a full featured content editor out of the box on top of your website,

* but you can build a website/theme around it from scratch as well.

* It is highly customizable. You can plug in your own widgets, styles, UI effects and more.

* Each widget is customizable to some extent but with an aim of not overdoing things and keeping it simple

* Think of it as more than rich text editor but less than photoshop

In general we'd like you to take a look at it and send usage feedback our way. What you like/dislike the most in particular. Some notes:

* In the current preview some widget options are a bit clunky to use. They may feel cluttered and non-specialized. We're working on providing option-unique interfaces for some of them and cleaning things up already.

* Widget base is simple right now, blueprint-ish even, we will be gradually extending it to eventually include widgets such as sliders, external feeds (twitter, flickr etc) and more.

* We are aware that there are other tools similar to this one out there already on the market. Our is a bit different, not better (neither now nor never perhaps) but different.

Other than that we will appreciate your insight regarding anything. Thanks!

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Really cool! My hindi professor could use this to make his hindi website himself - consider adding the ability to use the embed tag for pdfs and mp3s. See if you can support custom fonts. Also image/content sliders are all the rage these days.
Embeded objects, custom fonts, sliders, it's all coming sooner or later. But right know we would like to focus on user experience and overall usability.