Super light + simple CMS

red_ice · 26-07-2013 1:44pm #1

Hey,

I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a light weight and very basic CMS that would have a fast turn around for builds? The CMS should not rely on a third party and really only needs to be able to edit one area of content across 5-10 pages.

It wouldn't need to be able to create new pages, update menus, run a blog or anything that advanced. Just basic page editing.

Cheers

Dave! · 26-07-2013 1:59pm

Perch

Used it a couple of times before, and it's very easy to set up and use, and incredibly flexible. You can just build the site as a load of static PHP/HTML, and then it's easy to retrofit the CMS into it; you pretty much just replace any dynamic areas with particular tags. I've used it for pages with pretty fancy jQuery slideshows, etc., and it's great - allows the client to update any little elements from the backend.

It's not free, but worth it IMO. Their documentation and support is quite good.

red_ice · 26-07-2013 2:07pm

I did look into perch, but the issue is that it has to be hosted on my server and users will be given a subdomain to log into to update content.

I could just use wordpress, but I think it is just overkill for these projects. I'm looking into couchCMS atm. Seems ok...