I have almost finished a stand-alone version of the new CMSv6 and a beta version is going to be installed on learndutch.com in the coming 6 weeks. I also intend to update the thomassmart.com with the same beta version. The current site is a Flash site, its a worst-case scenario for google, all flash, no [...]

Iv been working on a couple of projects lately that require centralized programming. This is a term iv made up but i think it explains exactly what i mean…. more or less.. to other programmers/geeks…

It is generally the art (?) of programming in such a way that multiple sites, or multiple parts of a single [...]

a simple little script i made thats loads in an xml file (in this case a language file for the cmsv6), splits it up and lets a user edit the values with a simple textarea.

todo: make the textareas into simple html editors with some basic html buttons for bold/link/img/etc.

http://thomassmart.com/Experiments/xmlform/

Part of our cms, and has been for the last 2 versions, is that users can have their own fonts for the menu titles in the front-end. Not only that but they can still admin their menus from our cms, so dynamic texts and custom font?? how do you do it??

well i do it by [...]

So… im building a New CMS! woot… its different this time tho.. no more updating and patching previous versions. This new one is started from scratch. using all the latest techs at my disposal to bring my clients the most user friendly, fast en perfectly coded cms so far.

Its full of very userfriendly things like [...]

WVware is a very cool little proggy that i installed on our webserver. It can process word documents. So calling a simple little exec from php alows me to convert a word document to a html document including the previously embedded images. Then with a little more processing i convert the images to jpg, read in [...]

A very usefull function Im using in our new CMS v6 to load the frontend css into an array in the backend. I can then use this array to:

- Generate a css file for use in the editor and page preview
- Extract menu/sub/subsub colours and sizes for custom font image generation for the menus
- And a [...]