Has anyone used or heard anything about Cushy CMS, http://www.cushycms.com/.

Want to see if it is any good, I'm not exactly an expert but it looks quite easy and Effective?

Craig

I've read about it. It is supposed to be very easy to use. And you don't need any kind of scripting language on your server.

The downside is that it is a hosted solution. This means that cushy keeps the content of your website on their hosts together with your ftp account information.
The system then scans the html pages on your server and identifies sections which are marked by a special CSS class. The user can update those sections on the Cushy server. When commited they are then uploaded to your web server.

Yeh this is what's making me think twice about it, on one hand it's a registered company, but just wanted to see if anyone had any experiences, good or bad, with them

I recently read about it in .net magazine. I don't like the idea of a third party having ftp access to client websites. Furthermore what happens if cushy vanishes. What happens to the website...

I think there are better solution's which stay under your control.

$28 per month
a domain that looks like this: acmedesign.clienteditor.com
limited styling abilities...
Those seem like negatives to me.

I thought they also had a free version

Is the design of the customers website limited, or only the design of the user interface?
That would really be a definite negative point.

Yeh i thought there was a free one as well :S



You keep your own domain name though don't you, havn't heard about the .client editor section?



I agree about this, but if the customer only wanted to change the text on the homepage for example, this would not matter.


This isn't really off topic seeing as it is my topic , but without getting a long list of complex solutions, if i want a really simply CMS, where i can choose which parts the client can edit, what would you experts reccommend?

Cheers for all the replys btw

One more thing, not fussed having one that than alter the layout etc, just want one for editing text lol

Craig

Good idea but also having some negative sides as mentioned. There have been this kind of products in the past too but they never seem to attract people that much in the end alhtough this is the first one I've seen online. I think it was a Marcromedia (Adobe) product but can't remember the name anymore.

Anyone else any good suggestions?

Learn PHP and make your own easy edit text-only one

Haha easier said than done mate. If anyone is interested i found this one, seems to be good.

http://cmsfromscratch.com/demo-videos.php

Looks too limited. There's nothing they have done there that couldn't have been done with another free CMS and a tiny bit of knowlage (copy, paste & FTP).

Nice idea though and It's very well designed but I'll be sticking with oi-core for the moment (My companies system).