CompactCMS - Just right for some, not enough for others
Written by webchicklet on July 9, 2008 – 11:57 am -I’ve been playing around with CompactCMS lately. Personally, I like it…mostly. Most geeks would probably like it as well, but it’s lacking a few features that would make it perfect for geeks and non-geeks alike. However, if you are the developer type, and you often design sites for your friends and family, this could make your life easier … by making their lives easier.
The negatives: you have to code menus and ftp images, because neither an image manager nor a menu manager is included.
The positives: Your friends and family can use a very simple editor to manage content, and the URLs are search engine friendly.
Play with the demo a bit if you’re interested and you’ll be able to tell right away if CompactCMS will be right for you.
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July 13th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
And then when checking out links to my newly started project I ran into this post.
The objective judgment is much appreciated :). And in all fairness: the image manager is something I’m actually missing myself as well. So it’s something I’m planning to work on. End-users should really be able to upload images themselves.
The menu manager will have to wait. I don’t see an easy way for sub levels, but the idea of getting rid of those two negatives is a good motivation ;).
Thanks & keep it up!
July 13th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Thanks for stopping by and commenting, Xander. Looking forward to seeing CompactCMS progress with time.