What is Flash CMS?

Flash CMS is a Flash content management system. Using Flash Based CMS you may edit your website content, add new pages, edit and delete the existing pages, manage your website menu, galleries, contact forms, upload videos and music, etc... Due to the SEO support, ability to upload your own fonts and integrate external modules and widgets, Flash websites empowered by Flash CMS have a range of advantages over the ordinary Flash websites.

Flash CMS is a complete Flash website created on the basis of Flash Content Management System components and equipped with a control panel that gives you the ability to manage your Flash website information.

Flash CMS control panel is an online application that should be installed on your web server together with a Flash website. The main advantage of this control panel is WYSIWYG editor that makes website editing even easier.

Not every Flash website can be edited with Flash CMS. The control panel supports only the websites that are compatible with it. Flash CMS template is a dynamic XML site that possesses a definite structure and a proper set of files. Such a template can be created from any design or from an existing Flash site.

Flash CMS templates cannot be considered as design themes for Flash websites at the moment, as they cannot be switched over changing a website design without changing its content.

Flash CMS is provided in two versions:
- with a Flash template;
- as a stand-alone version.

Flash CMS templates are intended first, for users, who don’t want to spend money on purchasing additional software and second, for those, who don’t want to contact Design Studios for creating a Flash website.

The stand-alone version of Flash CMS goes without a template and is intended for Design Studios and also the developers, who want to create a Flash site and provide their customers with an opportunity to edit it easily.

Flash control panel and Flash CMS components are created on the basis of PureMVC Multicore using ActionScript 3. All the data is stored in XML files, so Flash CMS doesn’t require a database.

The process of creating a Flash Based CMS website does not make any difficulty for Flash developers that possess ActionScript skills and have learned Flash CMS general principles. Most likely it is a usual website creation excluding the part of work done by Flash CMS that makes it easier for Flash developers. A Flash animator that wants to create a website, but doesn’t know much about ActionScript, might consider this process a bit difficult, but absolutely possible to achieve.