Rijnboutt Van der Vossen Rijnboutt on the shortlist

Thijs van der Vossen, 17 Oct 2006, 21:08 in portfolio and design, last updated 17 Oct 2006, 21:14 (edit).

The website we created for Rijnboutt Van der Vossen Rijnboutt is on the shortlist for the ArchiNed ‘best architect site’ award. It’s one of the 15 sites selected from a total of 135 entries.

We’re very proud of our work, but this couldn’t have happened without the effort put into keeping the site up-to-date by the people at RVR. Great work!

If you like to get a feel of the content management tool we’ve written for them, you can watch a short screencast (QuickTime).

You can vote by clicking the ‘stem op deze site’ button next to your favourite entry.

Comments

  1. Dr Nic about 13 hours later: (delete | show email)

    Looks like you created your own template system for the users. You didn't like any of the preexisting ones for CMS/Blogs/Shopping sites?

  2. Thijs van der Vossen about 14 hours later: (delete)

    We almost always develop a custom content management system when we build a website.

    The first reason is that we want to make the content model fit the needs and wishes of our clients as closely as possible. In the screencast you see the user not only choosing categories for the article to appear in, but also selecting the project this article is related to. The latter would be very hard to do in a generic CMS, but it's very easy with Rails.

    The second reason is that we strive to make content management as simple as writing an email. You should never have to leave the page if you're working on a single piece of content. Most existing systems require you to save a draft and then go to another page if you want to do add a new category or if you need to upload a file. In the screencast you'll see inline 'Add' links for the categories and the projects drop-down and you get a demonstration of uploading an image all without requiring the user to stop working on the article itself. It's all about removing unneeded context switching so you can keep yourself focussed on the task of writing great content.

  3. Dr+Nic about 14 hours later: (delete | show email)

    Sorry, I was specifically referring to the syntax the users use for markup in the text fields. That looks new too - why not reuse one of the prebuild markup libs? Sorry for the confusion.

  4. Thijs van der Vossen about 15 hours later: (delete)

    It's just Textile, nothing fancy. ;-)

  5. Dr+Nic about 16 hours later: (delete | show email)

    Ok, didn't spot it - some wacky syntax in there with the %'s etc

  6. Thijs van der Vossen about 16 hours later: (delete)

    That's the syntax for setting the class attribute on an html element.

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