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Online Startup Makes Website Editing Simple

Barley is a website-management program that allows entrepreneurs to undertake on-screen editing of their sites almost as easily as making changes to a Word doc.

By Dan O'Shea

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What It Is
Barley is a website-management program that allows entrepreneurs to undertake on-screen editing of their sites almost as easily as making changes to a Word doc. Users need only click on a Barley icon on their site, highlight text or photos to be changed, enter the fixes, and they're done.

"We wanted to make it simple for any kind of business that has no knowledge of coding or web development to roll out and edit their own site as quickly as possible," says Jeff Johns, co-founder of Plain, the Carbondale, Pa.-based company that created the system.

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