Any niners here use Teleriks web controls, and can you suggest any way I can get users to like the system?

I tend to steer clear on these types of controls or frameworks, they always gave me a headache.

And how do you get to users to like the system? Implement an even worse one?

What are they used to? Why can't they use that and paste the HTML in?

2 minutes ago, Harlequin wrote

SharePoint 365 won't do?

It's a babysitting project, not a do-over... I'm still thinking that the control is running through events that should be silent or something like that causing a disruptive UI experience.

What are users saying about it?

There is a section that allows users to enter summaries that has to be hand coded HTML in order to add images. I just wonder how people deal with users that are using a CMS for the first time?

Something like this perhaps?

http://www.asp.net/ajaxLibrary/AjaxControlToolkitSampleSite/HTMLEditor/HTMLEditor.aspx

The RadEditor is actually one of the best of its breed, and I much prefer it to TinyMCE.

http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/editor/examples/overview/defaultcs.aspx

However, in my experience, very few CMS admins have the ability to be creating HTML content for pages, and so it's really not the right tool for "users" who can't happily switch to html mode for making minor adjustments.

Personally, I normally implement "widgets" (either Composite or User Controls for the Sitefinity environment) that do all of the "thinking" for the content admins, and manage the html, styling, etc for them. They then just drag the required widgets onto the page, select configuration options, point & click to insert images, links, etc, and enter any minimally formatted text content.

This is how Sitefinity is really designed to be implemented - with the generic-content control (RadEditor) being the fall-back point when something more specialized isn't available or appropriate.