CouchCMS anyone?

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Anyone using / used CouchCMS?

I’m getting more and more client enquiries for 'can we just add some images each week" or "can we update the … team / blog etc " — if only Sparkle could do it all (one day no doubt :wink:) for the meantime ‘might’ this be a workaround??

Simple CMS for web designers
Retrofits into any existing static site. No knowledge of PHP required!

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@harvest, Yes have used similar (Surreal CMS) for a client to enter their content on a created Sparkle site - they are on the Windows platform so used this as a work around until launch.

The one important thing you need to keep in mind with this way of editing your site is that you need to give your text container extra height because if your client types words beyond it then they don’t show up on the browser. Overall it is a bit tricky with Sparkle’s fixed-width approach, but as a positive you know exactly what you will get on the browser - no fluid-width rearranging!

So what I do is give my client access to their Sparkle Project File in iCloud and have them purchase a Sparkle license allowing them to edit their site with important guidelines to adhere too. When they are done I look over it and fix any issue they have created, and have either them or me relaunch.

That way the client has the feel of ownership but with a professional and helping oversight! :slight_smile:

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