One of the big things that sets the 60 second CMS apart from all other systems on this earth is the unique page content builder which allows the end user to create pages like those that the artist originally created for their website.

It's something that has taken us more than 18 months to build, in fact we originally built it for our employees who populated websites with content in other systems. Because WYSIWYG editors are so unreliable and we didn't want to have to hand code every page, we built a system that would allow us to easily put in content and maintain the design integrity of the website.

Anyway, making a system foolproof also means you have to limit options on it and we found it a little too limiting, so we have been solwly, carefully extending the functionality since while keeping to our original objectives.

    You can now select an existing page of content to copy when you create a new page, allowing you to template sections of your website and publish content even faster.

The image size in a container used to be pre-set, you could choose the orientation to crop it, but not the size, but this has changed. You now have three pre-set sizes to choose from: thumbnail, small and medium. Combined with the four choices of image shape: portrait, square, landscape and panoramic, this now gives you 12 possible variations of any image.

The same image library is available site wide, for pages, products, rotating ad banners and photo galleries. The image library also has much better organizational capabilities.

You may wonder why we'd bother with a whole lot of preset sizes of images etc. Why not just let the user specify the size in pixels?

The answer is that most of our end users wouldn't know what pixels are, so we make it useful for them. More advanced users can size their images any way they want and then load them up without the system cropping tool. They can also enter raw HTML and Javascript in pages if they want, but most users do not know how to do that.

We figure that f you're going to build something for somebody, build it in a language they can understand. Words like "Pixels" don't feature much in the language of most small business people.

When we started building this system, we knew that one of the biggest challenges faced by any website owner using other systems on the market was to maintain their site. Sure they could add a new page and open the WYSIWYG and dump in a whole lot of content, but no matter how they tried to make it look good, it would never look anything like the pages that the artist and web developer laid out.

So we decided to do build it in such a way, that the design integrity was maintained when the system was updated. This meant that fonts, colors etc. had to be dictated by the global stylesheet and not the user, but there was more that needed to be done.

What about those beautiful colored separators and containers the artist designed for the main pages? How could those be replicated? Well you see, building websites is always a business of compromise. What the artist wants is not always the easiest thing to build from a functional perspective, and so it is with the container designs. But we found that by compromising a little, we could make an attractive content layout that clients could continue to add as they wished.

The image below is from our new website. by ticking a box, you can make a colored container move down, so that the image preaks out of it. Of course the image must be a png or gif with transparency, but still, it allows the website owner to easily add pages which are consistent with the others on the website.