Comments on: Review of CushyCMS

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:17:24 +0000

I found the program to have bugs in it. One minute I can see the entire page and edit, the next, most of my content is pushed over to the right and when the client tries to change the content, the back ground image disappears. not cool at all. I just directed her to her editing html within the host that she goes through. It’s easier and has everything that CMS has and then some minus putting out your password for them to see.

By: Josef Telmer

Josef Telmer — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:50:45 +0000

Very useful information. Thanks for this. You got a great blog .I will be interested in more similar topics.I’m very interested in CMS and all its related subjects.

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Web Design Work Flow Ramblings - Havoc Inspired - Home of Ryan Taylor — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:12:51 +0000

[...] also very recently come across cushycms thanks to my good mate Anna. It’s fantastic as a very basic CMS for clients who can’t afford to fork out for a more heavy [...]

By: Nigel

Nigel — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:43:12 +0000

Looks good. I’ve done a few Wordpress sites recently, but realise it’s a bit too techy for most users. Also updates for engine or plugins tend to cause issues unless you know what you’re doing! I’m going to try Cushy. Thanks for the review.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:04:51 +0000

Cushy is great CMS, used it first time last week on one client’s web site. However I have own CMS solution, mine is very robust, not suitable for small projects. Cushy is great for small company presentation. However I am still looking for some simple easy to use open source alternative. Or if somebody would like to develop it give me a call.

By: Zac

Zac — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:31:53 +0000

Thanks for the thorough review.

I would have to second Emily’s recommendation and encourage you to explore EE. It is a bit more involved than Cushy, but much more flexible than wordpress.

By: Emily*

Emily* — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:07:34 +0000

I had a look at the demo video (once their website came back online – it was down for some time) and it sure does look easy peasy. But I have 2 serious concerns:
1. Putting in FTP details, like Richard says above. You are making yourself very vunerable to be putting your ftp details into this other company’s hands. If they have a security breach, then your website is also compromised.
2. Relying on their server to access your own website. If their site goes down (like it was when I tried to check it out the other day) then your clients will be unable to update their own website.

One more comment in reply to yours Anna: you shouldn’t feel like you have to design a site around the CMS – so yes, I do feel that with practice you can design a site and then plug a CMS into it. My favourite for this would be Expression Engine. In fact I’m thinking of doing a live documentary via my new blog recording the design and set up process using EE – so you can see how easily it can be done, and how flexible it is. Check out my Gradualism blog (linked above) shortly to follow this process!

By: Richard, Peacock Carter

Richard, Peacock Carter — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:09:56 +0000

Not heard of it, but looks reasonable: the only bit I don’t like the look of is having to provide FTP info!

Would be useful for those fiddly bits of text in templates that need editing – e.g. copyright notices – though.

By: Ollie

Ollie — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:52:35 +0000

Another cool feature is that because you set it up with FTP access to your site it means you can also make Server-side code like PHP and ASP.NET etc editable to users through CushyCMS too. Which is good as I could use it to work on my sites server-side code from anywhere in the world that has a browser. :)

Is it not cheaper to get a new GMail account per site. Unless you are making loads of sites. like anna_@gmail.com, anna_@gmail.com could be harder to manage, but free. I could be talking bollocks!

Ollie

By: Emily*

Emily* — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:37:03 +0000

This sounds too good to be true! I also have some clients who only want to be able to make a few simple text changes to a mostly static site, and installing and setting up a whole blog package for them is too much trouble. I’ve reluctantly used Contribute for those clients insistent on it (cos they’ve already been using it), but that (for my part) is as much hassel to set up as a blog – and the client always runs into bugs and problems with it. I found it a little difficult to understand quite how you get to edit the pages, so went to their site to watch the screencast and got a page not found error! Not a good sign! Anyway thanks for the review, I am definitely going to give it a test drive.