Poor Man’s CMS (Poormans) is a very basic CMS running as a swt application and generating static html pages.
The word ’poor’ in Poor Man’s CMS stands for:
- Be ’poor’ on functionality.
- You don’t need any dynamic webspace. Because you can use a cheap static webspace, it’s for a poor man. ;-)
The idea of Poormans was conceived some years ago. At this time, I was relaunching my website. Writing pure HTML took my attention away from writing content. I wouldn’t need any kind of editorial workflow, but the possibility to write content at an easy way and finally to export it to static HTML pages, which can be uploaded to a (static) web-space. I was searching for a CMS doing this stuff. But I couldn’t find one. (If there is one all the same, please let me know!)
As a result of being unemployed from october '04 to september '08, I thought: ’Man, write your own one!’ So I did!
Poormans is mainly an educational project for myself. I wanted to learn how to create a MVC servlet environment from scratch. In the meantime Poormans has grown up to a smart SWT application based on the spring framework.
My basic principle was: ’Keep it simple!’ And I think, I have created a small and clearly arranged mini application framework.
At the moment I’m thinking about a rewriting. A classic web mvc application with an ajax gui with some additional nice features like an integrated template editor or a gallery wizard.