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CMS from Scratch

Date added: October 02, 2007 Avg. Rating: No. of reviews: 3

Ben Hunt's superlight AJAX/PHP CMS for commercial web developers

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CMS From Scratch is FREE!
Post Date: Dec 09, 2008
Reviewed By: Brian Hayes Rating:
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I am a freelance web developer who does a lot of small to medium websites. A lot of times the website needs to have small updates done by the clients.

CMSFS is great because it's free, you create the templates from scratch and it requires no database!

It does have a bit of a learning curve in the beginning trying to figure out how to do things, but once I wrapped my head around how it worked, a little light bulb went off. Then it all made sense and was very simple to use.

You can check my site at www.foxtaildesign.com to see CMSFS in action!
CMS for designers
Post Date: Nov 13, 2008
Reviewed By: Eric Dubois Rating:
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Two things have changed since Ben posted his comment:
1) CMSfS has improved.
2) It is now FREE and open source!

I stumbled upon CMSfS after looking at Drupal, Joomla, and other "big" CMS options. Those CMS force you to adapt your design onto a preset skeleton and seem designed for programmers, not designers. With CMSfS, on the other hand, you start with the design and adapt the CMS to it. It allows you to quickly split a design into separate includes and decide which includes are editable by the CMS.

While it is probably not appropriate for really big sites (I haven't tested its limits), it's the perfect solution for the typical 10-20 page site. The "client" editing mode makes it extremely simple to edit the content without touching the structure.

There are still a few rough edges, which is why I withheld half a star, but it is improving fast and Ben is very responsive.
Quickest way to make a site client-editable
Post Date: Oct 03, 2007
Reviewed By: Ben Hunt Rating:
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I'm the developer of this CMS, so I'm bound to sing its praises... but... CMS from Scratch approaches the problem of letting clients edit some of their content in a new way. There's no database - everything is handled with files on the server, and managed through clever PHP scripts and a simple, fast AJAX interface.

CMS from Scratch was designed to do 2 things better than anything else:
1) Make an existing flat site client-editable as quickly as possible and with no down-time;
2) Be nice & simple for clients to edit

Licenses cost £100 ($200) per domain, and we provide all the support you need. I can also offer ONE FREE full license to any web development shops. Just email me at ben@scratchmedia.co.uk to apply