The CompactCMS project
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- Now available: suggestion drop-box. Leave your suggestions and rate others!
- Introduction of the CompactCMS wiki. Let's contribute together!
CompactCMS might just be the tenth CMS you considered using for your website. If that's true, ask yourself why you haven't found the right Content Management System just yet. If flexibility and efficiency come to mind: read on! CompactCMS is not your usual "fully loaded", "handle all fuss" and "too many features" CMS. Instead, it pretty much leaves all the designing and programming up to you, but makes editing the content easy without getting in your way. CompactCMS supports your way of working all within one administration page.
Core features of CompactCMS
- The administration: one page handles all, fully AJAX loaded
- Editing content: an efficient WYSIWYG editor or textarea with markdown support
- Template system: design it once, use it for all your pages
- You're in control: use your favourite offline editor for delicate programming
- Fully SEO-proof: friendly urls, dynamic sitemap and structured page lay-out
- Open source: completely free of charge
The aim of CompactCMS is to help designers and programmers to not stand in their way while developing a website, but provide their end-users with a reliable and easy to use Content Management System. Try the demo!
Overcoming feature fatigue
While other CMS packages are sadly continuing to compete on adding the most features in their quest to win over as many users as possible, CompactCMS keeps content management efficient and easy. CompactCMS has the philosophy that...
- A CMS should prevent a feature bloat
- A CMS should realize that "one more thing to learn, one more thing to possibly misunderstand, and one more thing to search through when looking for the thing you want" (Jakob Nielsen).
- A CMS should account for the behavioural change needed that comes with managing the content for a website. Too much behavioural change will cause users to turn out dissatisfied in the end (Gourville 2006).
Likewise a user of CompactCMS needs to know him- or herself and needs to understand the end-user. Although many features always seem attractive at start, after having used a product for a while preferences undoubtely change and it becomes usability that is found to be more important (Rust et al. 2006).
Recent changes for version 1.3.2
Information on recent and upcoming changes can be read on the version tracker page.
Cast your vote!
Help me understand your current perceptions and future needs for CompactCMS.
"I find it useful that CompactCMS focuses on actual content management."
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Re: New website look, please advice!
Actually - it does matter how it works - it should work consistently (from screen to screen)http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ok-cancel.html
Donate to the CompactCMS project
Have you successfully integrated CompactCMS with a website of yours and do you feel like returning the favor? Then feel free to donate either some of your time to help the community or support me financially, to help cover the costs of the project.