Vision CMS demo

Hey guys,

Somebody might noticed a while ago I was looking a simple php cms that will work out-of the box for simple dynamic websites.

I think Wordpress is a “heavy artillery” for simple websites, and after some experience with buyers I think there is a need for some kind of cms that’s very easy to use and modify the content.

So, I’ve been busy latest couple of months developing a php based cms to include with my non-wordpress themes. The main goals are:

• easy to use
• simple to setup
• flexible for any design

More information about the cms is in the footer columns in the demo.

Please take a moment (buyers especially) and tell me what do you think. This is the admin login url:

http://goo.gl/zRaiE

It’s in demo mode, so saving and file manipulation is disabled, but you can always try the preview. Website adapted (only two pages for demo) to the cms is my first xhtml theme, Camelus.

Please do not hesitate to leave any kind of feedback, either here or via feedback widget on the demo website.

Thanks, I need your opinion on this

Yeah it’s pretty cool, simple and sleek. Is that the only template you can use though?

You can use ANY template you want. One php include file and ready to go!

I want it!

Nice job.

Man, that’s awesome!

Have just tried out. Amazing interface and edit-ability

Very nice.

A couple of things from a purchaser perspective (we buy templates for corporate sites in our company group), possibly have at least a simple blog page so website owner can try to expand their social media marketing, and we think you should certainly allow for social icons to appear at the top of the page (we favour top of page not bottom). On a small site a search feature is not in our opinion particularly valuable in comparision to maximizing marketing potential.

For your typical vendor of services, being able to have not just a service page, but at least some sort of pricing boxes, table or sub-service elements would likely be beneficial.

The easy of editing is fabulous. Hope the slider is easy to upload images and videos into as that is one of the frequent problems with many themes (we have had them ourselves as WP newbies).

I think color pickers are a pretty straightforward item to have in a theme these days, and would quickly prevent there from being thousands of identical sites based on this system!

There is already a Vision CMS theme on themeforest by Oxylus. One of our related parties (sister co) purchased the Robust CMS theme from them. Service is not very good, and there have never been any updates to the theme. They abandoned it and handed us the project with Wordpress instead (which is new to us but we are learning quickly!). Your project for a simpler CMS might very well have fit the bill, although about 10pgs are needed, not just 5. You may have to rename it.

The demo or your commentary indicates an ability to set individual page titles. Assuming that the principal reason to have a website in the first place is to be found, from an SEO perspective it is important that one not only be able to edit the page titles individually, but also the other meta tags such as description and keywords, for each page, and use follow, no follow, etc. H1 and H2 styles plus anchor tags are other important aspects of inpage SEO although it looked like your kitchen sink allowed for all of that. Regretfully, Google and Bing have gone in different directions in respect of some aspects of SEO , for example, Google likes high quality inbound links, and Bing appears to like the same outbound. Not sure how one could build in an outbound links section – maybe a facet of the contact page footer with a title an editable title such as “Our friends” or “For your interest”?

Maybe you could have underneath each editable page when one is in the admin the fields for SEO plus maybe a custom CSS field for those a little more adventurous? It could be very important as SEO and design flexibility by the custom CSS field and color pickers are thus a built in feature.

On your demo, you had a feedback form floating on the left side, could this not be a contact form with the actual product – it would provide a nice sophisticated touch to the product. And it must have captcha, protect the email address by java or something else in the way of anti-spam security.

Please promise to provide great support, and updates from time to time based on customer suggestions (plus what you dream up) and we would be a guaranteed purchaser.

@Websys

The easy of editing is fabulous. Hope the slider is easy to upload images and videos into as that is one of the frequent problems with many themes (we have had them ourselves as WP newbies).

Yes, you can edit the slider area and insert any image you like from the server. There is also a filemanager, so you can upload images, create folders, etc.

The demo or your commentary indicates an ability to set individual page titles.

Try in the demo: upper left area is for title tag content.

Regarding meta tags: I haven’t find a way to replace all meta tags with ‘visual’ interface, but good to know that you consider this important thing. Btw : http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html

Not sure how one could build in an outbound links section – maybe a facet of the contact page footer with a title an editable title such as “Our friends” or “For your interest”?

You can create any list of any tags. Try in the demo to edit footer content: it’s a list – but you can make any element a link.

Oxylus’s theme name is Vision, not the name of the CMS . I looked at their portfolio and couldn’t figure out the name of the CMS . My CMS ’s name is Vision CMS , and the demo theme is Camelus (html theme without CMS already for sale here on TF).

Thanks for your feedback, appreciated

FullTank said
@Websys

The easy of editing is fabulous. Hope the slider is easy to upload images and videos into as that is one of the frequent problems with many themes (we have had them ourselves as WP newbies).

Yes, you can edit the slider area and insert any image you like from the server. There is also a filemanager, so you can upload images, create folders, etc.

The demo or your commentary indicates an ability to set individual page titles.

Try in the demo: upper left area is for title tag content.

Regarding meta tags: I haven’t find a way to replace all meta tags with ‘visual’ interface, but good to know that you consider this important thing. Btw : http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html

Not sure how one could build in an outbound links section – maybe a facet of the contact page footer with a title an editable title such as “Our friends” or “For your interest”?

You can create any list of any tags. Try in the demo to edit footer content: it’s a list – but you can make any element a link.

Oxylus’s theme name is Vision, not the name of the CMS . I looked at their portfolio and couldn’t figure out the name of the CMS . My CMS ’s name is Vision CMS , and the demo theme is Camelus (html theme without CMS already for sale here on TF).

Thanks for your feedback, appreciated

Hi, just so you know, Google lied! Truthfully, in the way the question has traditionally been asked – the answer from google was correct, sort of anyways. Googles crawler does read the keywords, and from there that information is used as part of the “discrimination chain algorithm” practices that google uses to determine website rank. They don’t factor into rank weighting directly, but rather indirectly. So google did tell the truth, and at the same time they did not.

They did this as Google has for a long time been moving to an algorithm model which places much more weight on overall quality content, social weighting, clean code, and other things which have been described ad nausem on the web. Keywords have been moved off the top shelf (direct) to mid shelf (indirect) as a result.

Other search engines do read keywords as well.

So being able to edit all metags is for us important, and I think a feature you should strive to add.

You did not say anything about color picking or custom css. Any thoughts or plans?