Finally .. Back working on a new content management system
Right now I finally am able to do some work on the new Content Management System for the Kids Community Kaboem. Kaboem was sold to Ilse last month so the pressure is on..
As I have said this is totally my idea of how Content Management should work. Being able to be flexible in all different parts and all aspects of what the site should be.
What is in my opinion the problem with current systems?
All current systems can do a hell of a job managing content in all its facets but in my definition a site is a ordered collection of content and functionalities to interact with the user.
Here is where it goes wrong for many systems, at least you have to do some hard work to integrate your idea's within a 'boxed' product, the interactivity with the user.
How to maintain the option to integrate interact with the user?
Keep on using the power of ASP.NET.
So finally I am building a system that will hold the definition of the site eg. the definition of the content, the definition of a module and the definition of a page.
Combine these together in a build system, keep the option to have asp.net script tags within definitions and I keep the power of ASP.Net and pre-merge content in the modules so that performance is not depending on the speed of the SQL server.
Included is a link to a screen shot of the first partial working system.. Yes I do use a lot of win form user controls in ASP.NET. Why ? I like the presentation and the speed of the local objects.
Link to screen shot.
(if for whatever reason you would like to see more screen shots .. Leave me a comment and I will place some more!)