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Who's it for?

All clients for whom I am building a website have the opportunity for it to be managed with the BareBones CMS™.

It is especially tailored toward solo, micro and small businesses.

The system is not for sale as an independent software tool.

BareBones CMS™

Self-manage your website

The BareBones CMS™ is a website content management system (CMS). It allows you to manage your website content without the need for HTML-specific technical training. It's as simple as using word processing software.

Keeping it simple

  • Fulfills the most common authoring requirements
  • No experience with web coding necessary
  • Works from within a web browser

A common criticism of content management systems is that they are too complex for the average requirement. A bit like having a confusing microwave-oven, they can make it difficult to achieve the simplest things.

The BareBones CMS™ is a deliberately lean and simple system that allows you to manage content creation, editing, and site organisation, such as the ability to:

  • create, edit and delete web pages
  • organise what pages go where
  • create, add, edit and delete text-based content:
    • headings
    • paragraphs
    • lists
    • tabular data
  • add and delete image-based content:
    • photos
    • photo galleries
    • illustrations
    • charts/graphs
  • add and delete multimedia-based content
    • pixel-based animations (such as gif animations)
    • vector-based animations (such as Macromedia Flash shockwave files)
    • video
  • add and delete common document-based content:
    • pdf's
    • word files
    • excel files
  • change formatting using specific customised settings:
    • alignment of text and images
    • choosing pre-existing custom design styles for text and aspects of layout.