I have just had a new project land for a new start up of a Beauty Therapist based in Sandhurst. The client has come to me with a limited budget looking for an identity and some collateral as well as an online presence. It’s a nice project to get my teeth into as it is a Business to Consumer market.

The logo has already been completed as well as the business card templates – so next up designing the site. Time for a ciggy!

AirCMS in essence is a lightweight cms which allows a user to edit a set number of pages on their website. It’s not a website builder, it’s not reinventing the wheel it’s just a simple way to change the content on your website.

You may be asking why bother? Well it’s a good question with so many powerful free solutions like drupal, joomla and wordpress why waste time writing something that is not as powerful?. Well it’s all down to user experience. As a developer I can use drupal, joomla and wordpress and even extend them but I find that when a client gets hold of it I spend more time tutoring them in how to use it than I did theming and writing it. The first issue I always had was terminology for instance a client would ask how do I edit a page I can only see articles, I have posts and pages how do I use them, I see you have used a plugin for the nav how does that work and can you make it do this? (the list goes on). Air was built for small websites and for users that wanted to update a set number of pages. You get a site tree