The latest version of WhiteDragon CMS is being released tomorrow. It has some neat additional features, like a built in “Search” function for all content. Place one function call in the HTML where you want the search box to appear on the page, and that’s another user requirement checked off.
You can also update all meta tags on any individual page, again by simply clicking on an icon on the page.
I will be making some tutorial videos for the site that should help a lot in getting a buzz going once people see just how easy it really is to integrate into the HTML. The CMS market has been made quite tough for web designers by the requirement for a great deal of technical knowledge needed to get other CMS’es and working with an existing design.
I think that the majority of design companies, once they have decided to go the Joomla route, are resigned to the fact that the site is going to look like a Joomla site no matter what they do.
In fact, my hardest task has actually been getting people to see how simple the WhiteDragon can really be, once they have been exposed to other CMS’es. Nobody can really believe it can be that easy. I can’t blame them. I remember installing one particular extension for Mambo. I thought it would be real easy and had a Monday deadline. I started early on the Saturday morning so I could get it out of the way and have a good night out and not worry about trying to get it done on the Sunday with a hangover… What a “happy” weekend that was. I got a massive headache, but not from any booze!
That had to be one of the contributing factors for the creation of the WhiteDragon, although there were many such straws for this camel over the last few years.
More updates as I get the videos done.