Comments on: Tutorial: Set Up a Client’s Site to be Editable with Cushy CMS

By: James T

James T — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:15:29 +0000

Thanks for the response, VWD. I didn’t realize it was as old as it was…I thought it was last month!

Anyways, how about a Surreal tutorial

By: Vandelay Website Design

Vandelay Website Design — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:40:39 +0000

James,
This post is over a year old. And like you, I had never heard of Surreal CMS when the post was written.

By: James T

James T — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:22:44 +0000

I still wonder why so many people are still doing write-ups about Cushy. It amazes me! Admittedly, I was a huge Cushy fan for like six months, and then I found Surreal. In short, Surreal CMS has blown them away with features and support (CushyCMS doesn’t even offer email support to free accounts). Cushy seems to have dropped the ball with development almost entirely.

If you’ve ever used it, Surreal is way better, plain and simple. Are they the same system? No, but the class=”cushycms” is the same (Surreal uses class=”editable” instead). Other than that, almost everything is different in a good way. It’d be great to see a tutorial for Surreal for once. At least they still release updates and features and are active on Twitter.

By: OpenSoft

OpenSoft — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:56:34 +0000

Good point.
I still feel a little uneasy about putting my customers through tha risk. This could be easily solved if the guys at Cushy would SELL a selfhosted version.
I would buy it.

Cheers, and keep up the good work, we love your Blog down here in Brazil.

By: Vandelay Website Design

Vandelay Website Design — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:51:34 +0000

OpenSoft,
If CushyCMS were to close up shop, customer sites wouldn’t disappear because they are hosted with another company (whoever you choose as your host). Customers wouldn’t be able to edit the site through CushyCMS anymore, so you would have to move to another option, but some competitors, like Surreal CMS, have an easy way to migrate from CushyCMS. So, yes there is some risk involved, but not that much.

By: OpenSoft

OpenSoft — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:25:08 +0000

Great tutorial.
I have a question, though…

Isn’t CushyCMS a hosted solution?
And wouldn’t that make kinda risky to your customer?
What if Cushy, as many other hosted solutions have done in the past, simply folds down and dies?
Where would that leave your customer?

By: Russel Tucker

Russel Tucker — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:23:43 +0000

I’d like to see a writeup like this for Surreal CMS.

By: sabrina

sabrina — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:21:14 +0000

Your tutorial is great!

By: Durry

Durry — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:50:49 +0000

Thanx mate, will do.

By: Vandelay Website Design

Vandelay Website Design — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:40:15 +0000

Durry,
Yes, you need to add the class that makes the section editable.