So here's the story... I was hired to help a non profit get it's web presence up to date. They made the mistake (in my opinion) of installing postnuke. Yes you can have XML feeds of your content sent to your cell phone, but HOW THE HELL DO YOU EDIT THE SITE???
Anyway, I looked all over the place for a CMS that was simple. Simple and flexible. No templates, just let the client or end user enter the data, and let me at that data so I can format myself. I didn't find anything like that so I ended up making my own.
Now to the meat of this post... I quickly found that something incredibly flexible was useful in almost every project that came my way, so I'm near the final stages in developing this into a commercial product. What I would like to know is, what would you; the non postnuke-using, need a simple CMS in a hurry; potential user, want out of a system like this? Products you love? Products you hate? How much would you pay for this? I haven't found much constructive input, so I'd be more than willing to hand out free copies of the software when it's done, to those who would give it a spin and give me feedback (you can email me at arjini@mac.com)
In case you were wondering how it works, some good examples of pages that are almost entirely driven by it are:
http://www.theicarusproject.net/
http://www.ryanrocket.net/photography.php
http://www.ryanrocket.net/journal.php
An older, version of the editor is online at
http://www.ryanrocket.net/moa_demo/index.php
And for those who are more curious of what's going on under the hood, here's the complete source for journal.php (the moa_include.php file is where all of the front end processing occurs).
<?
$pagescheme = 'journal';
include 'includes/colors.php';
include 'includes/header.php';
include 'includes/nav.php';
include 'moa_include.php';
?>
<tr><td><img src="images/journal-top.jpg" width="700" height="245" border="0"></td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="<?=$linecolor;?>"><img src="images/blank.gif" width="700" height="1" border="0"></td></tr>
<tr><td><div class="jextra">Evening along US-50, June 7th 2003.</div>
<?/*Moa CMS Query String*/ cms_query_blog(loc, 18, '', 122423, '%W, %M %D', '%l:%i%p', 'singular', 'yes', '20', 'DESC', 'moa_cmv_default.php', '
<!- BEGIN HTML -->
<*EXTRA_1*>
<*EXTRA_2*>
<div class="jborder">
<div class="jdate"><*DATE*></div>
<div class="jtitle"><*TITLE*></div>
<div class="jbody"><*BODY*></div><br>
<div class="jcomments">Posted @ <*TIME*> | <*COMMENTS*></div>
</div><br>
<!-- END HTML -->
/*END Query String*/');?>
</td></tr>
<?include 'includes/footer.php'; ?>
