This is the project home page for bytespring CMS. It has been released as an open source project under the Apache 2 license. Please feel free to distribute it, modify it and most importantly contribute to it.
Please give us your feedback on bugs and feature requests.. Also, for any site that uses it, we would appreciate it if you'd link back to bytespring.com and give credit to Bytespring CMS. We'd love to know how it's being used or if you have any problems, so please drop us a quick email at support@bytespring.com ...
About Bytespring CMS
Bytespring CMS is a simple XML based content management system. It's not intended to be a full featured CMS, but a light weight and simple system for beginners.
It's features include, integrated page editing and image resizing, user account administration, image galleries, dynamic menu creation and editing, news headlines, theme based skinning and friendly URLs.
It has been tested under Windows and Linux and uses coldfusion 6.1 + and Abobe Flex.
I've written it to fill a niche for those small business sites I regularly get ask to build, but never seem to have the time to do. I guess I was looking for a really simple system without too much clutter.
Some of the features under the hood include:
* MVC architecture using the modelglue framework * XML and WDDX used for data persistence * In memory caching for quick loading * Native Java libraries for image resizing * Fckeditor for inline wysiwyg editing * Image Galleries * Form processing * File upload * Friendly URL's
To take a quick peak please try the demo:
Downloads
You can download the source from the link below.
Current Version
Installation Notes
=== Installation ===
These installation notes describe how to install Bytespring CMS. It's pretty straight forward, but if you run into any difficulty please email support@bytespring.com It has been designed to run on coldfusion 6.1 and above on windows and linux servers. Mac has not been tested.
Note: The default admin login details. username: Admin password: Password1
1. Unzip the distribution package into the webroot of your website. This application will not run under a sub-directory of the web root. 2. Install coldspring and the modelglue framework
This distribution of bytesping CMS includes Coldspring v1.O and ModelGlue v2.0.304 and has only been tested with these versions. It may be possible to use newer versions when they're released, but I can't guarantee it will work... If you're not using modelglue or coldspring with any other applications, the best thing to do is to leave them inside the bytespring cms directory structure. i.e. just unzip the distro and it should work straight away.
Alternatively, you can move the modelglue and coldspring frameworks out of the website root and create a mapping to them in the coldfusion administrator. There's more info on configuring modelglue and coldspring here:
- http://www.model-glue.com/ - http://www.coldspringframework.org/
3. Give your application a unique name in /application.cfm
4. Create your the theme. (see below)
5. Customise the coldspring config "/config/ColdSpring.xml.cfm" with any site specific settings.
6. Test and upload the site to the live server.
7. Finished
=== Customising the theme ===
You can either create a new theme or customise one of the existing themes.
1. copy one of the themes from '/views/theme/mytheme/' to a '/views/theme/newtheme/'
2. modify the config.beans.constants 'ThemePath' property with the path to your new theme
3. Customise the theme files. Note: the theme styles are broken up into 3 separate files - MenuStyle.css .. the style for the menu - SystemStyle.css .. all the classes in this file are required by the app - ThemeStyle.css .. these styles are optional
3. re-initialise the app i.e. http://www.mydomain.com/index.cfm?init=true
Note: There is also a project page setup on RiaForge.org with wiki, forums and bug tracking.
