Peanut Butter ‘n’ Jam
It’s not very often we talk about something technical in nature on the creative side of the Jam3 blog but today we wanted to talk a little bit about our very own content management solution for Flash and HTML web sites.
Most people are aware of the wonders of WordPress, the popularity of Drupal, and the extendability of Joomla, but what happens when your wrench, hammer and screwdriver don’t do what you need them to? We love WordPress especially, don’t get us wrong, but sometimes these solutions seem a bit like driving your car to get the end of your street.
For the last 3 years we’ve been continually expanding on our own CMS nick-named “Peanut Butter”. What makes it so special is that it is completely tailored to the content it manages. It does anything and everything that you would expect from a CMS: uploads images, edits rich-text, orders content, associates tags with items, manages users, publishes previews and writes XML. But the best part is that the codebase scales itself to do only what your custom web site needs quickly.
Many would take this for granted. Your CMS shouldn’t require training. It should just make sense and as a bonus it should look like it was designed just for you. You’ve just launched your new custom web experience and you need to control it. Et voila! a matching custom control panel without breaking the piggy bank.
Most people know us for the immense pride that we put into the front facing side of our work and for the backend this is no different. DDB’s brand new site is a wonderful example and a testament to its power and scalability.
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_Tagged cms, content management system, framework, php, work
