Very simple content/site management system

Hello all!

We developed a very easy-to-use CMS (content management system), that allows creation of very simple websites. We would like to get some feedback from novice as well as hardcore SEO gurus and webmasters. Is our system easy-to-understand and easy-to-use? Is there a need for a system like that at all? If yes, how much money would you be willing to pay for it?

Main features:

• Unlimited number of pages
• Unlimited number of sections
• Separate fields for keywords, descriptions and titles
• WYSIWYG and HTML page editor
• News generation
• Current path listing
• Feedback form
• Site map automatic generation
• Site map automatic generation in XML (Google Sitemaps format)
• Correct Header generation (Last modified date)
• File management via web interface
• FAQ list generation
• 404 and 403 message interpreter
• Only 50KB size (this is without RTF)
• Human Friendly URL (category/page or /category/page.html)

Demo version:

• Demo site -_http://demo.atlanticsilicon.com
• Admin panel - _http://demo.atlanticsilicon.com/mad (user: demo; pass: demo)

System Requirements:

Apache version 1.3 and above
PHP 4 and above
Database MySQL 4 and above
Apache mod_rewrite module

Muchos gracias for any feedback,
Regards,
Alex

 

there always is a use for good CMS if easy to use

make sure you are different from others
also in clean code validation
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http://demo.atlanticsilicon.com/

each new topic/post/page should be entered in the RSS feed in addition to the news

since many beginners have near zero skills
you may want to add a few skins or templates for easy to adapt/modify different color schemes or display schemes
and since it is all about marketing as well
you also may include adsense code features to be auto-inserted from a central admin point, including possible banner rotation or ad rotation between 2 or more ad sources

besides that
it looks clean, simple and good and may be an easy way for all who love to have a small but modern dynamic website

do you use mysql db to store the text or flat files ?

if mysql, then
also think about an easy option to backup db and restore from db files

 

We are trying to make this system very easy to use by beginners.
We are planning on adding RSS functionality in the near releases as well as the skins. However, we do not want to overwhelm people with lots of features and have all additional ones as modules.

It runs on MySQL and thank you for pointing out the backup feature. We will implement it.

 

No bad Very good try You can make a lot things but it's very good for start.
CSS handling, Theme handling, I didn't observed any way to change

 

Looks nice and simple and it's pretty fast.

I'd like to see hierarchical menus available. For example, along the left side:

About
Products
Cars
Links

Then, when you click Cars, you would see:

About
Products
Cars
--Fast
--Slow
--Rice
Links

That way, you can have many sections to the site, but the navigation list isn't overweight because it only expands the item that has been clicked on.

Also, when editing the sections, it would be good to do some input validation. I left the URL blank on a new section, which generated a 404. I input "/cars/" and the tool added slashes so it became "//cars//" (the answer, obviously, is to just use "cars" and let the tool apply the "/cars/" but it would be nice to trap that kind of thing since it's a beginner's CMS).

I didn't poke much more than that as I saw it didn't support the hierarchical menus/sections which is something I really want from a simple CMS.

Mike

 

Hi there,

First of all, the CMS system seems to be easy to use, and thats good for novice users.

Personally I wouldn't pay for it. Not because its not good, but because I prefer to use open source solutions. And I have tested many that are quiet similar to yours.

 

I'm glad you liked it. CSS and Theme manipulations will be added soon ;-) We are working on it.

 

Thank you for your comments. The hierarchical menus is a very good idea and we are also working on it. The data validation is also a very important topic which we should address in the near future. We added your comments to our implementation list. Thank a lot for your very professional input.

 

I agree with you and everyone has the right to choose what's best for them. The only problem with open source is that tech support is limited to none. Although we do love Linux and other open source products.

 

I agree with you that the support can be limited if you don't choose the most popular one as Joomla or Mambo.

Just wondering, have you recoded some other CMS systems or coded from your self?

 

No, we did everything from scratch. That's why the filesize of it is only 50K ;-)

 

Lots of great open source stuff out there. You might have trouble charging, unfortunately.

 

yes..open source is my first choice...

 

Nice, very small and fast