#helix
Helix is a open source .net framework that you could view as a CMS on sterioids. having worked with numerous CMS's there are a couple of recuring problems:
- The CMS framework libraries are required in the front-end causing huge bloated applications
- CMS vendors tend to focus on adding flashy functionalities that powerpoint well during sales pitches instead of improving the core
- CMS's tend to see the world as a hierarical data structure. While most sites are a combination of hierarchical navigation/template structures with collections for the actual data items
- CMS's often don't have good support for migrating datatypes and content itself between different environments leading to this being a error prone and time consuming manual process
- Licence costs or for free ones the UI feels cheap and or the API's are not very well designed
Most customers still do allot with Excel so why not implement first class support for importing and exporting data using Excel/CSV