Building a product to sell
I am working on a CMS for web designers with zero coding needed or database work.
It’s target market is designers that know xhtml and css.
I have built the page renderer and file system out and now am working on the admin interface and email form hanlder and I am ready with a beta.
The best thing about it was once I had built out the functionality I tested it by dropping in my stuartmedia html and it worked with no errors. I am really proud of the code behind the renderer. 120 odd lines of code which will not break ever :p
The only requirements is a web host that supports asp.net 2.0.
How it works
The designer marks up their design.
They drop my cms files onto their hosting
They create the templates using the admin area and drop their html into it.
The templates are made up of 2 parts head and body content
Inside the body there are 2 custom tags, 1 for page content and 1 for navigation.
They can then add pages, each page has a docType, title, template and content.
They can choose to ignore the nav and just have their own hard coded one in template or they can use the navigation wizard to build out the nav using html.
The admin area will be able to be styled using css so they can brand it with no problem.
Thats it. oh and its damn quick too.
If you want a stupid simple CMS that does not get in the way and involves zero code, easy for clients to use and has a built in formhandler for email forms then stay tuned.
Future features will be a news, galleries, rss, catelogue, paypal, and some more settings around the content editor and uploading.
I will call it updateable pages.
now I need to find a good price point.