Currently I am working on a new Ruby on Rails based Content Management System. I decided to write my own because I am not happy with the complicity of most existing content systems out there. (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla etc.)

Following the Less is more principle this new CMS is going to have some powerfull and fun to use functions. After doing a lot of research and following up on companies such as 37Signals, Shopify and Wollzelle I decided to build this system on a subscription based payment principle.

This article is going to be the first of small series following the process off building this new web service.  During the development process I will give you updates and share tips as they come along.

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The first time I heard about Ruby on Rails was when I stumbled upon the rubyonrails.org website. After seeing the video on how you could build a simple blog in under ten minutes I was sold.

Being an active PHP developer I was struggling to find the right programming standards and classes in order for me to have some base that I could use for faster and more secure development. Ruby on Rails has all these standards bundled into its own framework. Form validations and SQL injections are easy to overcome with Ruby on Rails and that in turn gives you more time to spend on the fun part: User interaction and!

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Stock Photography websites are the place you should look when creating a new design. They are a great place for inspiration and for buying affordable photographs and vector files. Besides buying from stock sites about two years ago I also started selling on them.

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How do you present your Photoshop mock ups? Very often you will need to present your web-design mockups to your customers in a quote or sales pitch. Usually you just stick with the Photoshop mockup you created, but in my opinion that always seems to be missing that extra touch. Clients need to be given a extra push in order for them to visualize how a design looks like in a final web browser.

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