Rails - Sep 2009 - ANN: New Rails-based hosted content management system

My colleague Christopher Haupt and I have been working for two years
on a Rails-based hosted content management system, and it''s recently
emerged from Beta. We''d love to hear your feedback: you can sign up
for a free account at www.webvanta.com, or watch the intro video at
www.webvanta.com/video

(We''re the guys who created the Learning Rails online course that you
may be familiar with.)

Webvanta uses Rails under the hood (and borrows some stuff from
Radiant), but it is designed for folks who want to be able to build
dynamic web sites with custom data structures without any back-end
programming. We''re trying to deliver (part of) the value of Rails to
web designers who don''t have the time or interest to build Rails apps,
and for projects where the budget doesn''t support it.

This project arose from custom work we were doing, and the observation
that so many of the needs were common across projects. It''s taken on a
life of its own and is now our full-time business venture.

For now, this is a hosted service only, but we''re exploring the
possibility of publishing an open-source version.

Thanks for any feedback you can offer.

Michael,
That was a fun video. Can you tell me how you implemented your
''WizzyWig?'' WSIWYG editor? It was cool and seems much easier
on the
eyes than the TinyMCE I''m using now.
Thanks,
David

On Sep 17, 2:40 pm, Michael Slater
<m...-04BUtanlfE1BDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> My colleague Christopher Haupt and I have been working for two years
> on a Rails-based hosted content management system, and it''s
recently
> emerged from Beta. We''d love to hear your feedback: you can sign
up
> for a free account atwww.webvanta.com, or watch the intro video
atwww.webvanta.com/video
>
> (We''re the guys who created the Learning Rails online course that
you
> may be familiar with.)
>
> Webvanta uses Rails under the hood (and borrows some stuff from
> Radiant), but it is designed for folks who want to be able to build
> dynamic web sites with custom data structures without any back-end
> programming. We''re trying to deliver (part of) the value of Rails
to
> web designers who don''t have the time or interest to build Rails
apps,
> and for projects where the budget doesn''t support it.
>
> This project arose from custom work we were doing, and the observation
> that so many of the needs were common across projects. It''s taken
on a
> life of its own and is now our full-time business venture.
>
> For now, this is a hosted service only, but we''re exploring the
> possibility of publishing an open-source version.
>
> Thanks for any feedback you can offer.

It''s a customized version of FCKeditor. All of these editors are a
mixed bag. The next generation of FCK editor has since debuted, as
CKeditor, which looks promising, and which we''ll probably integrate at
some point.

We use a customized version of CodeMirror for the code editor mode.

See www.webvanta.com/technology for a list of things we use.

Michael

On Sep 18, 10:59 am, InventoryTrackers
<inventorytrack...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Michael,
> That was a fun video. Can you tell me how you implemented your
> ''WizzyWig?'' WSIWYG editor? It was cool and seems much
easier on the
> eyes than the TinyMCE I''m using now.
> Thanks,
> David
>
> On Sep 17, 2:40 pm, Michael Slater
<m...-04BUtanlfE1BDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > My colleague Christopher Haupt and I have been working for two years
> > on a Rails-based hosted content management system, and it''s
recently
> > emerged from Beta. We''d love to hear your feedback: you can
sign up
> > for a free account atwww.webvanta.com, or watch the intro video
atwww.webvanta.com/video
>
> > (We''re the guys who created the Learning Rails online course
that you
> > may be familiar with.)
>
> >Webvantauses Rails under the hood (and borrows some stuff from
> > Radiant), but it is designed for folks who want to be able to build
> > dynamic web sites with custom data structures without any back-end
> > programming. We''re trying to deliver (part of) the value of
Rails to
> > web designers who don''t have the time or interest to build
Rails apps,
> > and for projects where the budget doesn''t support it.
>
> > This project arose from custom work we were doing, and the observation
> > that so many of the needs were common across projects. It''s
taken on a
> > life of its own and is now our full-time business venture.
>
> > For now, this is a hosted service only, but we''re exploring
the
> > possibility of publishing an open-source version.
>
> > Thanks for any feedback you can offer.