Shift8 Creative Graphic Design and Website Development

Minerva, my CMS built using the Lithium framework for PHP 5.3+ is really coming along. Or at least I think it is... I want to keep increasing awareness of it, but I don't want anyone getting the wrong idea. It's still just a starting point for a CMS and not actually a finished and usable product. However, it is getting pretty close.

I just hope that enough time goes by that gives people the chance to weigh in and give me their feedback and thoughts before I get too far along and commit to something irreversable (or something difficult to reverse). I've used many CMS' over the years, far too many to list (or remember), so I've drawn from that. I've added what I believe are the best parts of the CMS's I've seen and used...I've also simplified.

I truly believe there is no such thing as a 100% single serving CMS. People choose different CMS' for different reasons and to achieve different goals. Then you have to edit them and either code or fine add-ons in order to make it complete...That's just for those who actually use a readily available open source CMS. There's also the custom applications that get built. I've been there too. I've done it all and; in the end, it's all just a good waste of time. I'm hoping to strike a middle ground between a jam packed fully featured CMS and a collection of a few class that you put together using a framework. Using the Lithium framework, I think there's a flexibility for the CMS that can't be found elsewhere. 

If you aren't familiar or haven't read a blog post of mine in the past about it...It's a CMS for developers. It's not for just anyone to grab and use and I doubt there'd ever be a "for dummies" book out there for it. That said, I hope that I'm not the only the one that will benefit from it, though I definitely think I will benefit from it so that means it has some value. 

I've revamped it a bit and consolidated a lot of code. It has an admin interface and system for adding templates to help you build out the front end as well as gracefully modify the admin interface. There's also access control so technically it has most (if not all) the features you'd want in for a CMS excpet some of the "friendly" things like a bunch of helpers and tinyMCE. Again though, it's under heavy construction.

Give it a look on Github and check it out clone it. It's usable to the degree that you will get the idea and understand the general direction of it. I'm really hoping to get some feedback...Otherwise maybe it'll only end up being of value to me, but I hope not. Speak now or forever hold your peace.