What do you do if your client’s computer crashes and their extremely old version of Adobe Contribute (which they use to update their own web site) is gone forever? The client’s version of Contribute is so old in fact, that upgrading isn’t possible and buying a new version for $200 is not desirable.
This is exactly what happened to one of my clients a few weeks ago, so I started hunting for a CMS replacement and because I like a challenge, one that was free, web-based and good! Cushy CMS is that replacement and so far, I’m really impressed with it.
Cushy CMS is a snap to set up and is dead easy for clients to use. It’s free for developers unless you upgrade to the pro account. As the developer, all I had to do was add a few classes to my HTML so that Cushy could recognize the editable areas. It took me about 15 minutes to set up and hand back to the client.
For developers who build a mixture of dynamic and flat sites, (not everything is in WordPress!
) Cushy CMS is a great alternative to Adobe Contribute.