Making a new, free, portfolio CMS for artists, input?
polycounter lvl 14
Hi. A year or so ago I sat down and started making a new portfolio site for myself and accidentally made a CMS. By now it's a fully functional portfolio/blog system with an admin backend and a few bells and whistles.
The thing is, it's not really there yet (=ready for release) and I wanted to see if there's an interest/need for yet another CMS. Here are the highlights:
The question is: what would it take for you to try this out if I made a beta? What would you like to see? (This is meant to be used on your own domain, no hosting included.)
Some very early screenshots of the admin panel:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4haj8yxihlz9ppt/7d3jqCtAuO#/
(Please ignore the "design" and a few errors you see, everything will be fixed)
Cheers.
The thing is, it's not really there yet (=ready for release) and I wanted to see if there's an interest/need for yet another CMS. Here are the highlights:
- Simple to install, update and use (installs itself and is updated from admin panel with a click).
- Aimed towards artists wanting to show their work.
- Lots of ways to show images and videos: full screen images, thumbnail gallery, stretch, slide etc etc. More styles easily added on request.
- Everything included: upload and edit files, descriptions, thumbnails etc from within admin panel. Upload a super res image and the system resizes it as needed (on the server, to save bandwidth).
- Files are automatically recognized and parsed on upload.
- Handles images, videos, audio and soon Unity files.
- Clean, functional design, yet...
- Very customizable. Every gallery/blog/section can have their own settings or just use the 'global' ones.
- Settings can be saved and loaded, kinda like "skins" in other apps.
- Built in modules: gallery and blog styles are 'plugins', easy to update and create new.
- All pages can be shared to facebook/twitter and every media file can have a permalink page.
- Search engine friendly + built-in google analytics, just add your code
- Pages for About, CV, Contact.
- etc
The question is: what would it take for you to try this out if I made a beta? What would you like to see? (This is meant to be used on your own domain, no hosting included.)
Some very early screenshots of the admin panel:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4haj8yxihlz9ppt/7d3jqCtAuO#/
(Please ignore the "design" and a few errors you see, everything will be fixed)
Cheers.