Reviews
Briefing: CMSmx
- By Mike Gunderloy
- May 19, 2004
CMSmx
starting at $14,000
EGO7
New York, New York
(212)-532-7353
www.ego7.com
CMSmx is a content-management system for Flash (specifically FlashMX)
sites that is itself built in Flash. So you've got a Flash-in-Flash-out
system here that lets them both offer a highly interactive desktop
design environment and lets users without any Flash knowledge maintain
content in a Flash site.
Working on an underlying layer of SQL Server and .NET, CMSmx lets you
define your templates in Flash plus their own components to indicate
content areas. You can then use other parts of the CMSmx interface to
actually enter the content, which is pulled into the Flash content that
gets delivered to end users.
Other features here include workflow management with notifications, an
interface that support performing multiple tasks in parallel (something
not usually possible with HTML CMS's), a role-based permission system,
and support for metatags to allow robots to search and index Flash-based
sites. They also offer add-on components for community building
including chats, event management, a bulletin board and so on.
If you want to get a sense of the end-user experience, you can explore
their sample community site. Otherwise, visit
the mai
About the Author
Mike Gunderloy has been developing software for a quarter-century now, and writing about it for nearly as long. He walked away from a .NET development career in 2006 and has been a happy Rails user ever since. Mike blogs at A Fresh Cup.