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…
5 Comments
How difficult is to change templates?
Each element of the template is a custom component so deleting from the template is as easy as deleting the instantiation of the component in the main template mxml.
The slightly more arduous task is the adding of components due to them obviously having to be integrated into the server side communication, but that isn’t too bad really.
One other point is the type of content for the template, integration of buttons, for example. was completed in my original application with specific URL’s so new link buttons can be generated, this made things slightly more difficult.
Cheers, Simon…
Ummm- yes please. Umm errr.. you want to open this project up? Please.
I would like to have a hack at writing a PHP backend for it. This could be a *very* popular program. Drupal is huge. But this could be better.
I’m very interested in using this for one of our projects. Let’s discuss licensing and prices…
Hi.
I’m very interested to try this by miself. Can you give me any recommendation, links books, tutorials or something.
Many thanks, and goood work!!!
Matias