I recently had the opportunity to work with Garrett Owen on building a website for Sunny Day Celebrations. Garrett did all the design and I did all the programming. One of the challenges in the specifications was allowing the content be managed by the owner, without them having to know HTML. And also without using a full blown content management system since it was such a small site.
Content Management Without A CMS
Cushy CMS bills itself as a “truly simple” content management system. That it is, and why I wanted to use it for this project. Other content management systems are more powerful and capable, but they are also more complicated to install/setup and require a greater learning curve to use. Cushy CMS has no installation and setup is nothing more than creating an account and giving a Cushy CMS class to the text area you want to make editable on the page. Then to edit pages, all you have to do is log in to your cushycms.com account, click the page to edit, and make the changes. Once you click apply, the changes immediately take effect. What a great solution for simple edits.
Recommended
Cushy CMS is the best way I’ve found of providing basic content editing for small sites. Not only is it simple to use for new sites, it’s also easy to retro-fit an existing site.