Content No-Management System. Works like....

Designers design websites. And nowadays, they also code websites in HTML and CSS. What designers don't want to do is

• Learn complex templating languages
• Set up some obese content-management system
• Configure and maintain a server
• Require clients to learn some obese content-management system
• Make static websites for clients and need to change it twice a week because for said client.
• Use a FTP and configure server addresses to upload their work.

This is where CNoMS (see no mess... get it...?) comes in. The idea is simple:

1. Design and code your pages in standard HTML.
2. Identify editable content by placing simple attributes into your tags, e.g. <h1 data-fieldname="site title">Dan's Deli</h1>
3. Drag your project folder (let's say it's called "dansdeli") into the CNoMS app and click "Publish"
4. Your site will be published to dansdeli.cnoms.com where everybody can see it
5. Your client can go to dansdeli.cnoms.com/edit where he will see the same page - except he can change your editable elements right on the page! Every edtiable element also has a undo-history and you can drag a slider to go through previous versions.

• Reusable elements. Every element with the same name in data-fieldname will have the same content across your site.

• Automatic micro-templates. Set up a blog like this:

  ```html
  <ul data-fieldname="blog" data-type="collection">
    <li data-type="item">
      <h2 data-fieldname="title">A blog post</h2>
      <div data-fieldname="body">Just lorem ipsum it.</div>
    </li>
  </ul>
  ```
  

  And CNoMS will analyze the structure, turn everything from <li> to </li> into a micro-template and let you add more blog posts in the edit view, where they show up just like they will be rendered.

• Local preview - CNoMS also has a "run locally" mode, where you can test your design and make changes.

CNoMS already works as advertised, but there is no GUI yet - you'll have to run it from command line. Also, there's no cnoms.com yet - you can only run it locally. If you think that this is a cool project let me know and we can make this reality.