Re:Relax – A New Generation CMS on Top of React, Redux, and ...
by andybak on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @11:28AM
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I completely agree.
This is also true of rich text editors (at least in their usual default configurations. First thing to do is hide most of the options)
The reason we've developed our own CMS framework (on top of Django) is because everything else I looked at had a complex, powerful and dangerously flexible interface. I lock down almost everything apart from content fields and a choice of page types (about us, contact, product lister etc).
A CMS isn't a design tool or a page layout package. Unless you're building something that's meant to be reusable and configurable by end-users (a mammoth and complex task which you probably want to avoid) then lock down as much as possible. I've had more problems from allowing too much flexibility than i ever get from allowing too little.
This is also true of rich text editors (at least in their usual default configurations. First thing to do is hide most of the options)
The reason we've developed our own CMS framework (on top of Django) is because everything else I looked at had a complex, powerful and dangerously flexible interface. I lock down almost everything apart from content fields and a choice of page types (about us, contact, product lister etc).
A CMS isn't a design tool or a page layout package. Unless you're building something that's meant to be reusable and configurable by end-users (a mammoth and complex task which you probably want to avoid) then lock down as much as possible. I've had more problems from allowing too much flexibility than i ever get from allowing too little.