# Thursday, October 08, 2009
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Over the course of a couple of website developments I created a simple content management system. I know there are loads our there already, but I wanted something simple and easy for non-techie users. It runs on ASP.NET MVC, has an elegant extensibility model and produces clean HTML 5. I very happy with it and plan to use it on all upcoming simple websites.

The system is file based, so no SQL database is needed. This makes it ideal for running in shared hosting. It’s perfect for the ~10 page website. But there’s no reason it can’t scale up to larger sites too.

So I’m obviously enamoured with my own work :) but is it worth sharing? I would love to get the code out there for people to poke at. However, is it really worth my time doing so – setting up a project, documentation etc? My recent open sourced work seems to have taken off like a lead balloon (Snooze, Hasic, etc)! Do you want to see my new CMS? Or shall I just keep it to myself?

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Thursday, October 08, 2009 10:57:16 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
I'd like to see something simple, easy to get going, but using recent, lighter tech like ASP.NET MVC, so yes! DNN can be overkill for a lot of cases. Please release it if you feel you have time!

I don't know if your CMS is using Hasic, but this could be a good opportunity for its real-world showcase as well ^_^.

Thanks for your hard work.
Kevin Radcliffe
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:00:05 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
I'd love to see it open sourced. As for Hasic: I didn't really see any use for it (for me), but thought the idea showed a great deal of imaginatgion and the code was a huge learning experience for me. Same with the code from Snooze.

Bottom line: more Andrew Davey code == more better.
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:12:34 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
go for it. i'm looking for a lightweight cms myself. am currently using n2cms but something simpler might be better.
Friday, October 09, 2009 4:14:47 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Thanks for the kind words guys! I'll start the getting the project online this weekend.
I just need to think up a decent name now... any ideas?
Saturday, October 10, 2009 8:45:40 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
How about " MVCMS " ?

chakrit
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