lalanotlistening

Web Content Management

Here’s the deal, interfriends:

I want to design a small website content management tool for people who want to add stuff to their sites without writing HTML.

It would basically be an Admin page that would allow you to add new product categories, subcategories and pages with as little manual HTML writing as possible. You’d still have to manually manage your home page and any unique pages, but the generated pages would all re-use a layout. Adding a page would also optionally update an RSS feed.

Before I start, I need to decide which tools I will be using.

I am more familiar with ASP.NET + C# than I am with PHP, but ASP.NET-enabled (Windows) hosting tends to be more expensive than PHP-enabled hosting (Usually Linux). I expect that anyone who has been hand-coding their pages did not care about ASP.NET at the time they signed up for their hosting package.

So how many of my small-business/self-employed friends have access to ASP.NET?

If this goes ahead, it is intended for your use. If you have a Twitter account and a few seconds, choose one of these links and tell me what your hosting situation is. You will be redirected to Twitter. If you don’t have a twitter account, you can email me at lalanotlistening+tumblr-wcm@gmail.com instead.

Thanks for helping me out. I hope to be helping you soon, too. :D

Whether or not I complete this project will largely depend on the interest you show in it. If it sounds like something you’d like, please tell me. You can also contact me to suggest features, if ya want.

Introduction

Greetings!

I am strange.

My mother used her copy of The Legend of Zelda to put me to sleep as an infant. When I was young, I wanted to be an inventor, a teacher, a chemist and a comic-strip artist. My father used to make me draw the same face making fifty different expressions. Both of my parents teased me for liking vegetables too much. I was accidentally stabbed in the head after convincing my babysitter to try to re-enact a magic trick we had seen on TV.