Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Teaser ... Content Management Server gets Rapid


So Halo2 has been releasing a number of teasers ... so I thought I would do my own.

The CMS community have developed and shared a huge number of useful components ... but would it be great if there was a proven / production quality / rich functionality solution site that addressed the vast majority of peoples requirements out of the box and provided a framework that enabled extensibility.

Such a site should have ...
  • a Page Rendering Framework for CMS templates that liberates functionality from design constraints ... wouldn't it be cool if CMS templates could be developed by business people using InfoPath rather than needing developers with Visual Studio
  • Numerous standard User Controls
  • Site output controlled by XML and XSLT
  • Base Templates
  • Easily skinnable
  • Completely driven by flexible configuration
  • Rich Metadata support ... simple customisation for any required taxonomy, support for standards like eGov, database lookups, richer authoring, extensible with new property types
  • A to Z ... thesaurus support, support for common misspellings, alternative navigation
  • Navigation ... complete range of flexible controls, site maps, classic & taxonomy based navigation, driven by XSLT and a set of samples such as the Microsoft flymenus and Javascript popup menus
  • Workflow extensions ... soft delete / content expiry / richer decline support
  • Auditing
  • Reporting Suite
  • Location based services using MapPoint
  • Syndication using RSS
  • Accessibility compliance with eGov standards, Access Keys, XHTML filter
  • News functionality - locations / newsflash & alerts
  • Events functionality
  • Job / Career functionality
  • Eforms functionality ... enabling customer contact, message routing, SMTP and BizTalk support, extensible Form elements such as selection boxes, multi-text fields, populate lists from SQL Stored Procedures
  • Extensions to Web Author menu - such as reports, site settings
  • Deployed using the Windows installer
  • Comprehensive developer documentationa
  • All ready proven in numerous high profile sites.
Sounds a lots better than Woodgrove doesn't it ?

Wouldn't it be nice ?

Wouldn't it be nice if this was completely free, supported and the full source code was available ??

Wouldn't it be nice if this could be delivered as soon as next month ??

ArtemisCorp and I say - "Youre on !!"

Save the date - 30 Nov 2004 - the date that CMS gets Rapid.




8 Comments:

  • Anonymous Anonymous said…

      This looks like the CMS Plus Pack (www.msibpluspack.com) on steriods.

    Very cool

    -Angus (www.anguslogan.com)   

  • Blogger Mark said…

      Difference is ... its not a toolkit of components ... its an fully integrated out of the box solution.   

  • Anonymous Anonymous said…

      Looks good ....

    Date added into my agenda :)

    Emmanuel Desigaud (http://man.unice.net)   

  • Blogger Owen said…

      Bring it on!
    (Do you need another beta tester?) :0   

  • Blogger Mei Ying said…

      Awesome!   

  • Anonymous Anonymous said…

      Wouldn't it be nice if all of this source code was available in VB.Net too? Pretty please...
    Mike Cattell   

  • Anonymous Anonymous said…

      Unfortunately for you it is available in C# only, by all means when it is released convert it to vb.net and re-release to the community.
    TonyS-Artemis   

  • Blogger Mark Gittoes said…

      Hi Mark, Any update on this release, I'm quite interested in this. Rgds Mark   

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