Fancy CMS team continues working on the flash CMS to make the day of actual release come sooner. One more important step of work is behind: we’ve made a design for the admin panel. Of course, it still will have to undergo some changes to improve usability, but in general the design is finished.

Fancy CMS Admin Panel

The major idea of Fancy CMS is to separate the wheat from the chaff. What does it mean?
All the actions you can perform about a website can be split into the following groups:

• data-related (content of the website)
• design-related (presentation of the website)
• website structure-related (business logic of a website)

Fancy allows to edit any of these, but in a regard of how often whether you need to do this and what knowledge is required for it. The data of the website needs to be changed frequently, and the website owner needs to have a quick access to any piece of the content. Fancy CMS provides user with a full range of opportunities concerning editing content of any type. To make the editing process be more clear, we have developed a system that allows to edit content of any type separately. Simple data editing can be performed directly on the page, and all the media are filed in a separate library to simplify the access to it and its editing. News and Blog sections are managed separately too, as well as other dynamic data.

Years of experience show, that anything that concerns the design and logic of the website must be extracted from the area of user’s everyday access. This should be made in terms of security and admin panel usability. This helps to keep the administrative panel clean and avoid undesired interference.
Still, to make the web site’s presentation and logic be available for access and editing, we’ve compiled all the graphics into one .fla file which can be easily edited with minimal flash knowledge. In such a way any time the website owner wants to make some changes in website design, he can simply make them in this file, without having to go through all the coding.
Fancy CMS also allows to work with the logic of the whole website, which is very useful when using a template to set up a website, or when there is a need to make some deep changes in website’s structure. We keep Fancy CMS core open-source, so that you can go through its code yourself or with a help of a specialist and apply any changes you want to make it suit you specific needs better.

Fancy CMS Sketch

We’ve made a lot of research to find out what features a CMS must posses to be flexible and usable enough. What we’ve come to will be embodied in Fancy CMS. Should you have any thoughts and ideas on this topic, please leave them in the comments: your opinion and experience is very important for us and we appreciate your participation.