another spirit of our time

This little movie asks the very interesting question: do you have a facebook. And then it goes deeper. It really links well with the zeitgeist movie.

code ignited cms II

Well the CMS is definetly taking shape. As a matter fact the most of the items that I listed in my previous post are completed. All but the multiple admin levels. That item I will be waiting with.

I am currently working on a function that instead of setting background and font colors, lets the administrator select from a set of themes for his section. I built the section template quite cleanly so I think this should not be too problematic. Just needs some preset designs though. But they will come. For now I keeping it all very clean and slick, but once the system itself is set I think that a bit of play with the CSS can make this look quite funky. I am quite exited. The client has been working with the administrative interface for about a week now and has been pointing faults out for me that I never saw….more to follow.

Shanti CMS by Valentin Backofen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at www.codeigniter.com.

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Zeitgeist The Spirit Of The Age

Sit back, relax, you have some time?

An amazing piece of documentary really. How much of it is documented I cannot say, but it seems quite well researched. Going through the age of the fish, and showing us how information is easily manipulated.

Watch this:

Zeitgeistmovie.com

fun video series

I stumbled across this user group on dailymotion.com.
The 404s.

code ignited cms

I have been working with codeigniter for a little less then two months now and I am just about to fully appreciate all the functionality this frame work has to offer. Setting aside the fact that it has made a much better PHP developer of me, it also allows me to take up much larger tasks on my own. It is amazing really. Anyway. What I do want to write about is a one month production that is slowly coming to an end. Well a beta alpha version is around the corner in any case. Essentially I was looking to develop a generic CMS that would allow me to easily deploy small and large sites more quickly.

I tried several premade versions. Joomla and Drupal are just scary for any client that I’d want to take over his site quickly. And Silverstripe…well silverstripe I am still developing myself in. So until I fully know my way around it, I will be sticking to what I know.

So I created a basic structure that allows easy deployment of a site with an integrated Section and page management. I also added a function to add multiple file types. These file types can be modified and extended. The interface allready allows the administrator

The following remains before I will post the source code here:

- Integration of tinyMCE for better content editing (rich text etc)
- function to easily create internal links
- multiple admin-levels
- visual management of attached files

The first site that I will use to test this system will be clinique-shanti.com

Shanti CMS by Valentin Backofen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at www.codeigniter.com.

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