Anigozanthos

I'm just not reviewing those wikis, am I?

This post is just a quickie. A fellow by the name of Homer emailed me and mentioned a database-less CMS that I hadn't seen before: SkyBlueCanvas.

This one feels pretty good at the moment. I can see the elegance of their design, and that it basically works rather well. Each page is able to specify its own template. There are plugins/extensions - seemingly all sorts of ways to customize it and add functionality. It appears to support an infinite hierarchy of pages. The problem is that the menu system by default is very clunky and does not allow any of that hierarchy to be shown. The support forums mention some customisation, but I couldn't figure out how it worked.

IMO, there should be much better built-in support to show a breadcrumb trail, sibling and child pages. That information is already in the system, so it should be better supported.

The built-in page editor is WYMeditor, not truly WYSIWYG, but pretty close. It automatically handles links to internal pages and images, which is very nice. Edit: As Scott has pointed out in his comment below, SkyBlueCanvas supports the WYSIWYG editor TinyMCE, but even better, it is included in the default install! The TinyMCE integration could do with some polish - the list of internal page links is a bunch of nameless pid numbers, effectively unusable. The image selector is better - at least you can see the image folder and filenames!

This one might be worth spending some time on. If I can put together some way to automate the generation of navigation links based on the internal information, then I think this would be good for simple as well as more complex sites.