Silverlight Content Management System (CMS)
To experience the Silverlight CMS demo yourself click here. Unregistered and registered users can use the read-only version, any changes you make to the pages cannot be saved.
*Please note: Due to the volume of traffic to this site and other CMS users, online demonstrations of the CMS may not be as responsive as we would like, for an exclusive demo please email us.
When the editable version is completed you can volunteer to test by emailing: support@vectorlight.net.
What is a Content Management System?
This is what Wikipedia has to say about Content Management Systems:
"A content management system (CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a Web site. Content management systems are deployed primarily for interactive use by a potentially large number of contributors."
A Small Background to This Development
This CMS project which combines .NET Silverlight with Server-side ASP.NET has been in development since May 2007, the major challenge here was to come up with a front-end that is easy to use and doesn't clutter up the screen and at the same time delivering a true WYSIWYG experience.
On the server side the development of a core set of classes that can deliver the required functionality of a modern CMS is well under way. The choice of data storage, either SQL database or XML files was a difficult one, on the one hand SQL is great for flat lists of data, but it doesn't really lend itself to nested structures and the fact most website hosting providers charge a considerable amount for MS SQL convinced us to try a file system solution using XML.
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