My Latest Cms…
I am currently writing my third cms where I work. It’s very much modern and the architecture is pretty snazzy. I’ve not used much of asp.net default stuff, favouring my own slimline versions of their bloated packages like ajax, MVC, and the user account system. I’ve pulled most stuff in from my old cms’ and extended it in a number of ways.
The basic page system allows you to put anything, anywhere! Controls, content, graphics. The system allows you to add any asp.net control and manages persistance on those that support a custom interface. Its uses multiple master pages for themes and has a form builder control that can nest inside itself for some complicated data entry with an easy to implement db store.
I really need to get an alpha version done but I’m all over the place at work atm. JQuery, vb.net, c#, asp, css can’t get to sit at it long enough to write the back end user controls and get a full demo together. Its all very well being data driven, but no good if the users have to edit the db! lol.
I’ve used a lot of JQuery and fallen in love with it’s power and simplicity. The front end movement of items is done using the draggables and droppables. I’ve written a treeview and a drop form so far. Hopefull I’ll get some time at home to write these up as plugins soon 