Thoughts on CMS

[Richard Conyard]

Guys,
I'd appreciate any feedback on my CMS that you wish to give. It can be found at:
http://test1.redantdev.com/edit/
username: demo@redantdev.com
pass: password

EDIT: Put in the right URL!

[Rob Holmes]

Hi Richard,

Nice - very clean and looks simple to use.

Have you thought of making it into plugin for a hosting control panel ?

Rob

[Richard Conyard]

I must admit I hadn't, but it's not something that I'd be adverse to considering.

[Rob Holmes]

I just spotted it's asp :(

We currently only run Linux servers

But our hosting control panel has a handy plugin feature that installs extras - if you ever did a php version it would be interesting!

Rob

[Webstuff]

I'm very impressed - I've worked with CMS systems before (mainly things like Nuke, which is far too heavy in my opinion), and developed projects to my own CCC and CMC systems (Just to be different), and I've been blown away by the simplicity and yet still in-depth control system your CMS provides.

My personal opinion, summarized;
an excellent CMS (what I've seen of it so far). The only things I think might need changing are certain bits of the help text. For example, the help text for the "Display on menu?" page editing option is "Should this page be displayed on the menus?". I think that should be ellaborated on to explain which menus (IE; "Should this page be displayed on the '[parent page name]'s' menus?").

[Richard Conyard]

Yeah, there are a few bits and pieces like that through the site.

In development we've constantly been moaned at by project management and testing about the terms and names we used, so we gave them full edit control using our sxForms (more of that on the main site), but strangly although things have improved they are not perfect. I guess it's a bit more tricky than they thought ;-)