Edit your contents directly in the page – with all styling applied

Since yesterday, all the preliminary work is done for having an actual, live demonstration of a CreatePHP-based CMS site, so you can head over to http://demo.contentcontrol-berlin.de and see what we’ve been up to these past few weeks.

If you have been visiting our company website, you might find the design somewhat familiar, and with good reason. For you see, CreatePHP was developed in an existing project and has thus been in productive use since early June. Aside from the obvious benefit of reusing work that had to be done anyways, we thought it would be good to develop the library on an actual real-world use case, especially one that is outside of the comfort zone of most traditional CMSs.

The edit toolbar can be shown directly above the current editable area

Single page layouts like the one on the demo server are somewhat popular among web designers these days, and most CMS administration backends are not all that well prepared for that. These types of issues are of course a lot simpler to solve in inline editing, even if the fact that there are about 80 different editable areas on one HTML page proved to be quite challenging for the Create.js/VIE stack performance-wise. Continue Reading →