Comments on: CushyCMS – The Simple and Practical CMS Solution

By: Cheryl H

Cheryl H — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:24:57 +0000

Trying both cushycms and surrealcms on two different clients. I see how to allow the clients to replace images with their own uploaded images but how do they replace the alt text and the linked popups?

By: Bloom

Bloom — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:16:33 +0000

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By: Freddy

Freddy — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:58:03 +0000

If you have a remote webhost, they can access your site even easier than the folks over at CushyCMS. Just something to think about…how secure is secure if it’s not on your own box. For most sites I do (small, static, brochure sites), this was perfect. Alas, it seemed to good to be true and I found a few things flaky, but I easily learned to work around them.

Recentently I’ve discovered another similar CMS called Surreal CMS and I’m giving that a test drive. They use class=”editable” so I did a find/replace for ‘cushycms’ and i was up and running in no time. Looks good so far, but we’ll see. The URL if you want it is http://surrealcms.com/

By: JMarsh

JMarsh — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:40:43 +0000

I think it’s a great solution for making a site almost idiot proof for the end user who wishes to update their site from time to time. Just trying to make things more simple. Sometimes less is more. I don’t think you are being irrational in being protective of the ftp access, maybe there could be a workaround in progress. Cool little cms though.

By: Christofer

Christofer — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:27:35 +0000

It’s a bit too simple for most sites maybe (no news archive, no control over menus…that I know of), but it looks great and seems really easy to implement/use. For my clients I would rather use a hosted CMS that does cost, so that you know that they will fix bugs when I/they find them.
And the only real reason I haven’t tried it yet (on my own servers) is that I would never trust a company, that I don’t know better, with my FTP-account. I just couldn’t (nor would I like to) do that. Am I too protective of my own passwords?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:49:09 +0000

@Tommy M To use multiple classes you would write it like:
class=”class1 class2″
You don’t use multiple class attribute, but multiple class values.

By: Tommy M

Tommy M — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:18:14 +0000

@Sean McArthur, Create a blank template that is XHTML Transitional, and create a div tag within the body like so:

and it will bring up the error, “duplicate specification of attribute “class”.” So, it does break validity.

You are right that you can have multiple class attributes, but they may not be contained within the same tag.

By: Sean McArthur

Sean McArthur — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:11:06 +0000

One note. Multiple classes isn’t invalid XHTML.

Otherwise, yea, Cushy seems pretty neat and easy to turn in, from what I’ve seen.