Hi guys, i was watching your ContentBox 3 Webinars. It looks quite nice, somehow similiar to WP. I worked in the last 20 years with a lot of ColdFusion and PHP CMS… So I thought, I will send you now some input:
What I miss is a drag and drop editor, like Siteorigin Pagebuilder/Visual Composer, etc… Maybe you can have a look on Grid Manager gridmanager.js : Gridmanager.js Documentation . Its a quite nice and simpel tool, We made a plugin for Mura CMS on top of their ckeditor. Specially positioning of images in a cell is super easy. For CB3 it would be also really amazing, in this way you could widgets directly in the grid and build up content more sophisticated. If you dont’t want that the fronted is only based on bootstrap, you should have a look on siteorigin pagebuilder (wordpress) and get “inspired” from their solution. Its independet from any frontend language.
I think u use a fork of CKFINDER as File Manager. Do you plan something database driven? The problem with a ckfinder integration ist, that you have no control over the assetts. Specially if you have huge amount of data and solr integration, its really a big mess!
One of the biggest issues with CMS we always had, was the search function. With Mura we use Solr (because the integrated search function is useless). But Mura use also a mix between database driven and filebased ckfinder assets. This combination is hell for the configuration of a solar search. The customer is not willing to pay for this, because they expect a GOOD search engine out of the box. How is this solved in CB3??
I think, the use of a grid system in combination with a separate database driven asset-managent would be a great benefit. In this way you can trash the ckfinder completley and the configuration of a facetted solr search is easier.
Regards
Martin