I have created a web project and things are working well. The more I learn about alfresco, the more I love it.
Yet I cannot figure out how to get the HTML editor to work. Or even the plain text editor.
Essentially, I need to be able to browse the website (which I can) and when the marketing people (I do hate them) click on "edit" I need the editor to show up.
I can download it and edit it and upload, preview, deploy etc. just fine. But is there a way for them to edit the file inline?
You need to use a webform to create your page. It sounds like you have just imported the html page. It needs to be backed by a webform which generates xml for the page content and renditions for the html (using freemarker or xslt). There is a Webform quick start tutorial on the wiki that takes you through the steps for this.