As I’ve mentioned a couple times on this blog I’m currently working on a .NET content management system. I’m targeting a release sometime around when .NET 2.0 releases, however, I’m hoping to have some beta releases in the next couple of months.
As I was evaluating the CMS a couple months back I was less then pleased with the UI of the administrative interface. I had done the “design” myself and beings that I’m not a designer it wasn’t good. I began looking around for designer/developers who could assist with a redesign of the interface. When it came down to it I decided to go with Justin Palmer of Encytemedia. I actually came across Justin’s site as I was doing some investigation of Ruby on Rails. He developed a template for Typo (RoR blog engine) which I liked so I dropped him an email to see if he’d be interested.
As you can see by the title of this post Justin was interested so we got started. The major goals of the project where to create a new fresh, clean UI for the administrative interface of the CMS, as well as to create a standards based design that would make the application viewable in all major browsers.
The results can be seen in the screenshots in this post, as well as within Justin’s writeup of the project.
I’ll be making available a demo of the application in the next couple weeks and will begin a beta period shortly after that. If you’re interested in getting an early peak at ActiveType leave a comment here and I’ll be sure to contact you when things are ready to roll.
Read more details on Justin’s blog