I have just completed an application in Flex for ca & McAfee through POPview. The spec was to develop a microsite builder with a WYSIWYG content management system and the suggestion of Flex was made (one reason was to avoid page refreshes when data was updated), it also needed to be very user friendly and take approx 3 minutes to learn how to use. After careful consideration many interesting perks of using Flex kept on arising and the resulting application was so easy to use and manage I couldn’t resist rebuilding a similar application to demo on my blog.

The application has a front-end Flex built swf which is the microsite and is populated by an XML file (front-end not included here in the demo). The backend builder and CMS is built using ColdFusion and a MySQL database outputting the above XML file. I tackled some new areas in Flex which have served as excellent learning points in using the software i.e. custom drag and drop components. So have a look and a tinker!!! Note: This was very quickly put together for the blog just to highlight some of the features I developed in the original application.

http://www.nutrixinteractive.com/cms_demo/main.html

Note: Image uploading is disabled to stop people uploading HUGE images…