I've been developing an app in my spare time. It initially started as an idea planted in my head by my dad (who is a small business owner).
After 5 years or so away from programming I thought I'd use a personal project as a means to get back into things.
I've learned lots along the way and improved my skills in JS, PHP, SQL too.
The project is a simple CMS for bricks-and-mortar small businesses who want to publish a product catalogue online.
One of the cool (I think so at least) features is that you can design your own print resolution brochures as PDFs.
So my marketing line is: upload once and manage online and print material at the same time.
I'm getting ready to start promoting this soon, and before I did that I thought I'd run the product past you clever lot.
Links:
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Demo site:
http://acme-shoes.localsa.com.au
Demo brochure:
http://acme-shoes.localsa.com.au/ulimages/14/pdf/5/brochure.pdf
If you feel like going through the sign-up then go here:
http://www.localsa.com.au/sign-up?account-type=Plus
otherwise here is a test account you can use:
http://acme-shoes.localsa.com.au/admin
username: demo
password: demo
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Really appreciate any feedback you can give.
Dashboard tools and floating menus worked great. One thing I couldn't easily see how to do was change the skin of the page, ie the colors and fonts etc. The catalog edit looked good but the graphics widget didn't seem to do very much.
Still, these felt like things that haven't been fully implemented yet, but if they're done to the same standard as everything else I'd say you'll find success with it. I found it extremely fast, intuitive and responsive, which is more than I can say for the site I manage at my job!