From hand coding to full WYSIWYG with Concrete5
The web started out developed by the British engineer, and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners Lee.
Brought about from a task he needed to complete for the Central European Nuclear research group, a website was a simple string of text, with hyperlinks embedded into it.
Shift forward in time to the emergence of the first web design software tools, frontpage, firstpage, and navigator, the intelligent, yet untrained could enter the internet arena.
The next wave of technology saw the emergence of Dreamweaver, heralded as every webmasters dream, although it was a personal nightmare for me. WYSIWYG driven web design suites became easier, and easier to use, until XSitePro launched, and re-wrote the book of easy to use web design software.
As XSitePro gained popularity, CMS started emerging from the underground, and as Mambo became Joomla, WordPress entered the stage.
Although WordPress gained massive popularity quickly, it was certainly not for its ease of use, the SEO abilities became obvious, but my transition from software to CMS was not instant.
Modern, open source content management systems, like WordPress, have made entry to the web world even easier, but could entry become even easier than this?
Well, yes, and no. Concrete5 is another open source CMS that logically directs the user to edit any webpage by clicking on it, what could be easier. Every element can be individually moved, edited, added and deleted, on the fly, in true WYSIWYG style, more likened to desktop publishing than webdesign. It is, what I expected my first copy of Dreamweaver to be, when I bought it all those years ago, when I was massively dissapointed.
So, where does the no come from? C5 is a little difficult to set up, for the untrained, there are many templates around, yet these are difficult to edit, in the eyes of a newbie.
As I glance back in time, to the early CMS projects, each with their own quirky solutions, I see a very bright future for Concrete5, as the setup, and templating becomes easier to use for the general public, we could well be on the forefront of another wave of CMS transitions.
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Thanks for the kind words!
We've done a lot to make concrete5 as simple to install as possible, but as it runs on webservers and there are many of complicated configurations – it's always going to involve a little technical expertise to create a database and set permissions correctly. Happily we offer fully managed hosting for concrete5 that includes some support at http://concrete5.org/hosting. If you're just trying to get your site up /now/ this is a great way to go.
As our marketplace of add-ons and themes continues to grow with the energy of our 3rd party application developers, we expect concrete5 to get even more powerful and easy for the average site owner to use.
Thanks for calling out our work, we really appreciate the article!
No problem at all Franz, C5 is an excellent piece of kit, highly recommended.
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