Well, I'm nearly there with phase 1 of the CMS I've been developing.   An overview of the CMS capabilities are listed here.

Full control of your site content

All site content text and graphics are editable in place using an easy to use WYSIWYG interface.  

Multi-lingual

You can multiple versions of your content in a wide variety of languages including Arabic and Chinese.   SPARK CMS automatically translates your original text when creating foreign language content.

Use for the Internet, Intranet or Extranet

Included is a comprhensive permissions system which means you can have secure pages or content.

Next gen site management tools

Creating and managing your site and clients is easy with the site management system.

Site and departmental themes control

You can have a global site template to your site or control the site template by sub site or pages.   So, for instance, you can have a global site look and feel but then have a completely different look to another department or section.  

Fully accessible to W3C standards

The site generated are full W3C complient which are accessible by screen reading software.

Search Engine Friendly

Sites created with the SPARK CMS are designed to be extremely search engine friendly.   Techniques such as Google Sitemap creation, friendly url re-writing, and meta content control (meta-tags etc) are included as standard. 

Integrated Google Analytics

Track the search engine usage and visitor statistics through the integrated Google Analytics console.

Full CMS Branding to your company logo and specification

This is a major feature of the CMS! More details on this later.

Design

The system is written on ASP.Net and uses many advanced techniques such as Ajax and JQuery to give a very intutive user experience.  Anybody who has worked with me will tell you I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to user interfaces and I've put extra emphasis on making the CMS very easy for novice users to get to grips with quickly.  The result is a system that I think acts more like a client side application than a web application.   This means you get instant "stateful" feedback (I try to avoid refreshes/postbacks where possible).

I'll more details up of the CMS and with it's own homepage in the very near future.

I've uploaded a new version of the Silverlight Organisational Chart that will be part of the Silver Pride CMS.  The site hierarchy will be an integral part of the CMS and will allow designers and administrators to visual and control the site from one central place.   

This new demo now sports drag and drop between nodes and I've also spruced up the connections between nodes.  The demo can be viewed here as before http://silverlight.silver-pride.com/OrgChartTest.aspx.

Well, I've not posted on here for a couple of weeks so I thought I'd put another sample of the CMS development up on the blog.    It's another one of those "work in progress" pieces but it gives a good idea of the type of work I do.   As Microsoft's Silverlight 2.0 RC1 was formally released this week I thought I'd put something up that's related.  It's a part of the Silver Pride Content Management System (though it will be *much* more than a CMS in the future) and gives a nice idea of what the CMS is all about.   The system brings some of the best technologies out there for web development and makes good use of JQuery, Ajax and Silverlight to provide a rich user experience with a heavy emphasis on ease of use. 

This example in an early implementation of the site, client and page management system.   The CMS can allow a company to manage multiple clients with multiple sites from one common user interface.   This example shows a possible site hierarchy UI.  It doesn't do much here but it does demonstrate dynamic tree generation and insertion of nodes into the hierarchy with animated effects.

A demo can be seen here. http://silverlight.silver-pride.com/OrgChartTest.aspx.  Click on the "Add item" buttons to add a couple of dynamic nodes to the list.  I'll possibly make the demo more interesting in the future!

Note, you will need to install Silverlight to see this.  It's only around 4.5mb and it's now the official 2.0 release so it is worth it.