Introducting RootsCMS...
We've been busy beavering away over the last few weeks (hence the lack of posts!) building our new CMS system - RootsCMS...
Built around the Smarty template engine RootsCMS is intended as a very simple and easy to plugin content management system - in fact anyone with basic HTML knowledge can plug RootsCMS into their website within minutes - it really is that simple!
Many commercial CMS applications are either incredibly expensive to licence or incredibly complicated to to integrate into an existing website - this is the barrier we are striving to overcome with RootsCMS - think Adobe Contribute but without the delays of FTP uploads - RootsCMS runs on the back of your web server on a simple sql-driven database (whatever you have available).
RootsCMS is no slower than executing a basic PHP request!
With the use of the Smarty templating system the overheads are also minimal - the majority of CMS systems compile each page request as it's made - not RootsCMS...
On publication of a page RootsCMS compiles the template with the content updates and caches the result so the end user only ever receives the final compiled version - which means very simple archiving of content for: rollbacks; archiving; or
even event based content publication.
RootsCMS is currently in user testing on a couple of websites but it currently publishes to XML, XHTML, HTML, CSS & PHP (we'll also be porting it to other languages when we have a stable version to release for beta testing). RootsCMS uses a WYSIWYG editor for ease of use for site editors and can be customised to use your favourite editor... TinyMCE, FCKEditor... Whatever you prefer.
Anyway we'll be releasing updates over the coming months and hopefully we'll have a release for you to try in the next couple of months!
*RootsCMS is in the early stages of development but we appreciate any comments people have on content management systems they have had issues with (so we can make RootsCMS even better), people interested in seeing it ported to other platforms etc etc... Basically if you have something to say - email us
Built around the Smarty template engine RootsCMS is intended as a very simple and easy to plugin content management system - in fact anyone with basic HTML knowledge can plug RootsCMS into their website within minutes - it really is that simple!Many commercial CMS applications are either incredibly expensive to licence or incredibly complicated to to integrate into an existing website - this is the barrier we are striving to overcome with RootsCMS - think Adobe Contribute but without the delays of FTP uploads - RootsCMS runs on the back of your web server on a simple sql-driven database (whatever you have available).
RootsCMS is no slower than executing a basic PHP request!
With the use of the Smarty templating system the overheads are also minimal - the majority of CMS systems compile each page request as it's made - not RootsCMS...
On publication of a page RootsCMS compiles the template with the content updates and caches the result so the end user only ever receives the final compiled version - which means very simple archiving of content for: rollbacks; archiving; or
even event based content publication.RootsCMS is currently in user testing on a couple of websites but it currently publishes to XML, XHTML, HTML, CSS & PHP (we'll also be porting it to other languages when we have a stable version to release for beta testing). RootsCMS uses a WYSIWYG editor for ease of use for site editors and can be customised to use your favourite editor... TinyMCE, FCKEditor... Whatever you prefer.
Anyway we'll be releasing updates over the coming months and hopefully we'll have a release for you to try in the next couple of months!
*RootsCMS is in the early stages of development but we appreciate any comments people have on content management systems they have had issues with (so we can make RootsCMS even better), people interested in seeing it ported to other platforms etc etc... Basically if you have something to say - email us
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