Say hello to ProntoCMS a new open-source web content management system.

The project is hosted here: http://code.google.com/p/prontocms/

Pronto is built on ASP.NET MVC and uses JQuery and FCKeditor. It is very light-weight and ideal for small websites.

The code in subversion contains a couple of (very minimal) sample projects. Hopefully I will get around to writing some documentation soon.

Please take a look at the code and let me know what you think.

Thanks to everyone who left encouraging comments on my previous post about a new CMS I’ve created.

I have decided that I will be open sourcing the project. However I now need a snappy name for it. Naming is so hard for some reason!

Any ideas are greatly appreciated. The CMS is light-weight, very simple, runs on asp.net mvc and has plenty of ajax goodness.

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?