Show HN: Turn Dropbox in a CMS

8 pointsby mneumegen13 anni fa5 comments

The majority of CMS's are overkill for a simple 10 page website. Deploying with Cloud Cannon takes a few steps.

* Drag static website files into Dropbox to deploy

* Add class of "editable" to any div in the HTML to setup CMS

* Simple content editor for your clients with no branding and requires no registration

* All websites are automatically compressed periodically (CSS & Javascript minified, all assets served from CDN).

Static websites are becoming super powerful with 3rd party applications such as Firebase, Disqus and Wufoo. We want to be a big part of this static website ecosystem.

All feedback is welcome.

http://cloudcannon.com

4 comments

jmduke13 anni fa

This is a really cool idea. I've been looking for ways to combine the advantages of a static site with a more traditional CMS-esque workflow (I love Jekyll, but I hate having to recompile my site and repush it just to add a new post -- it makes things like mobile editing difficult.)

My question is thus: how would this work with a blog? The demo video showed how to change the text of divs on a landing page, but is it possible to actually create new pages/posts?

mneumegen13 anni fa

Thanks for the feedback. I agree Jekyll's awesome. At the moment Cloud Cannon works with the output of a Jekyll site (Since it's just normal HTML, CSS and Js) but that's as far as the integration goes.

I can see the power of having full Jekyll integration (Being able to add new posts, client's edits being saved back into the Jekyll templates etc). It's definitely something I'll be looking into.

meerita13 anni fa

Basic $5 per month 1 website

I prefer having my own server for $5 and use Jekyll to admin not one but several websites.

achalv13 anni fa

Pretty awesome. I love how just one css class can change the way content is shared between client and dev. :)

mneumegen13 anni fa

http://cloudcannon.com