Comments on: CushyCMS Beta Launch: Free Invites For TechCrunch Readers

By: Chloe

Chloe — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:48:59 +0000

I have tried to edit my site, yesterday the tool bar was present, today it is not visible. Thus, editing becomes a problem!

Also, if on my original site, I am using coloured font, and when editing, I change the letters, the same colour is not visible.

I had images on the original site but when I copy and paste to cushycms, all words underlined, bolded, and images do not appear.

Also, it would help to have the same borders as the web site. I noticed when I was entereing web sites, it took two lines in cushy yet on the web site, one line would have sufficed.

Any suggestions, thoughts?

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CushyCMS Goes Professional — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:00:27 +0000

[...] interviewed Guy King from Stateless for the CushyCMS launch in April (the post includes a demo video) and he mentioned then that the long-term plan for CushyCMS was to [...]

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Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:27:27 +0000

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UserVoice Offers A Better Way To Take Customer Suggestions — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:14:48 +0000

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Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:34:11 +0000

[...] Tripit是一个新型的社交网站，它能使你在旅行的时候也能和朋友保持联系，或帮助你计划国际旅行。它会帮你保存旅程，你可以从手机读取，然后当你和某个朋友有相同目的地的时候它就会提醒你这样你们就可以找个地方喝一杯了。CushyCMS 是一个新推出的快速免费的内容管理系统 — 任何一个没有HTML，Javascript和网络编程基础的人都可以用它做出复杂专业的网站来。在FreeLine我们使用的WordPress，不过只要它免费我们就会一直用它。他们刚刚开始了内部测试，注册人数增长很快，所以千万别错过了。 [...]

By: Mic

Mic — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:13:53 +0000

This is a great CMS for the basic websites for small businesses! I’ll definitely be using this CMS for a few sites i run….BIG thumbs up to Guy n his crew!

cmon aussie cmon!! ta! Mic

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Google Opens App Engine - Tripit - CushyCMS - The Free Line Report 4.14.08 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:31:25 +0000

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By: Abid

Abid — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:54:31 +0000

I noticed that when i upload an image whilst editing a page, that image gets placed in the root folder of the site defined on my ftp server. Is there any way to change it so any uploaded images would get uploaded to the images folder?

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Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:00:41 +0000

[...] CushyCMS is a new hosted Content Management System from Stateless Systems – the people who brought you bugMeNot.com, PDFMeNot.com and other similar services. It’s a dead simple CMS that requires no software install and no real programming knowledge. Found out about it via this Techcrunch post. [...]

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Vocescuola - CushyCMS — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:03:32 +0000

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By: Don

Don — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:28:17 +0000

Nice tool. I am working on a similar product that enables news lists, comment forms and file libraries in addition to the ability to edit content regions on pages. It will be set up for resellers (designers) as well. I think there is a large market for this type of product and Cushy is looking good.

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By: Jon Aizlewood

Jon Aizlewood — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:44:46 +0000

From what I’ve seen so far, I’m really liking CushyCMS. Something that I don’t think has been mentioned yet is it’s application as a landing page editor for use in large(r) marketing departments where a web designer can’t continue to make tiny experimental changes to a landing page for PPC, email, etc.

With Cushy, the designer makes and codes the page, and the non-techie marketer can make mods without bugging the designer every hour.

Would also help to manage massive libraries of landing pages, as long as they’re coded properly from the beginning.

All in all, CushyCMS looks like a great tool, with room to grow.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:51:43 +0000

@Josh #58 – looks to me like square spaces isn’t free? it also looks overly complex if i had a 3 page static site and wanted to let my client edit just 1 or 2 fields on the home page….in my opinion cushy is perfect for that and all i have to do is add a class to the 2 or 3 elements i want to make editable…very nice for a guy like me who just uses dreamweaver and doesn’t really wanna edit too much html

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:10:55 +0000

This approach seems somewhat ridiculous. Adding a bunch of classes to your markup is going to make for bloated classitis. Not to mention the ridiculous amount of work to set up and maintain…each page’s elements needing classes…that sounds like a nightmare.

If you want a killer solution for a CMS try http://www.squarespace.com

By: Q dub

Q dub — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:18:25 +0000

I’ve played around with CushyCMS and I’m very underwhelmed.

CushyCMS merely copies the file HTML, re-renders it in editable format.

That’s USELESS in semi-dynamic pages with templating. I was really hoping it would run the live page, scrap the dynamic output, THEN re-render the final product with an editing overlay.

By: Aaron Myers

Aaron Myers — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:54:24 +0000

Great little site, setup up and got it going with my site in less than 5 minutes but there is one problem. If I wanted the title to be editable () I would have to apply the “cushycss” class to and that’s not going to validate on the W3C validator (Yes, I’m an HTML nerd.) Example is here http://www.skyzie.com/cushy/

Any way to get around this?

By: Patrick Moore

Patrick Moore — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:40:07 +0000

I’m a bit surprised at all the praises being sung here.

The application does appear to be fairly well developed and has a more beautiful interface than any application I’ve developed. But none of this functionality appears to be anything more than the simpler bits and pieces of other recycled CMS features, with the ability to upload via FTP.

I’m hopeful that Guy and the other developers of this tool plan to target amateur designers/shops, because anyone with any real CMS needs will find they quickly outgrow this system.

Guy, one quick question: Does the WYSIWYG editor you’re using style itself based upon the stylesheet defined in the page/site? Or will it default to Times New Roman 36pt h1 tags, blue underlined links, etc.?

By: Bobby

Bobby — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:34:40 +0000

Is this type of CMS sustainable with an SVN workflow? Wouldn’t site updates from SVN just wipe out content changes?

By: anon

anon — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:10 +0000

For small static sites this looks nice, but def. not for sites that require dynamic content that needs to be archived (which pretty much is how all sites are built these days).

By: sasha pave

sasha pave — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:14:18 +0000

Very nicely done Guy and team! Beautifully simple and elegant. True, not a complete CMS, but it certainly fills a gap. Texty is probably the closest thing in this space I’ve seen.

Nice touch with the FTP integration, file and directory selection, it couldn’t have been smoother.

One suggestion: Bigger message about security when signing up/adding a site. I have multiple vhosts for my account and want to make sure that you are protecting sensitive login data.

-Sasha Pave

By: Christian Cabuay

Christian Cabuay — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:54:33 +0000

I would like to see a client login from the website rather than going to CushyCMS. Looks good.

By: No Way!

No Way! — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:30:45 +0000

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t really want to work with a company that has spent its past years creating systems that get around my sign-up forms, and prevent me from making money.

Why on EARTH would I want to help this company that has worked SO HARD to make sure that I don’t make money?

Hey, TechCrunch, can you post your login info to BugMeNot for your Beta access to their new system?

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:24:44 +0000

Hmm. Interesting. I’ve been using Joomla! for a year and a half now-and I’ve just fallen in love with it. This CMS seems rather lightweight compared to all of the extensions that Joomla has.

Duncan, you say that joomla gives you coding nightmares…I get wet dreams.