I have been working for some months now to develop an e-commerce module for Admin76,  the CMS which is currently exclusive to 76 Creative. The e-commerce module, called Cart76, utilises many of the nice features of Admin76 such as drag n drop functionality, advanced image gallery management, etc. It is now in it's final stages of development, so if you are interested in running your self-managed site on the Admin76 platform, or if you require a self-managed online store please contact 76 Creative for more info.

The latest site to be powered by the new Admin76 Content Management System is www.matthewmaran.com. Matthew Maran is an award winning wildlife photographer, so his site really put the gallery management feature of Admin76 to the test.

Following the design of the original website (with a few minor changes to the layout) I implimented the Admin76 system throughout the site allowing easy management of all text and image content.

The other main addition to the site is the soundtrack. Each page plays a random background noise - birdsong, seashore, crickets etc.

Check it out: www.matthewmaran.com

The Comus Productions website has recently undergone a major upgrade. It now has loads of new Flash presentations which incorporate a new set of Comus stings and idents.

The site is now fully content managed with the Admin76 content management system by 76 Creative, so all the text, images and video content on the site can be easily updated by the site's owner.

I used the javascript jQuery library a lot throughout the site, to fade text in and out, fade images and to switch slideshows and videos too.

A prominent feature of the site is the recreation of the Photoshop Lens Flare as an animated flash movie, which I adapted from this lensflare project on FlashDen. It was this lensflare that inspired the most experimental flash movie of the site - the Comus Viewfinder which can be seen on the links page.

Other Flash features include a more corporate style flash presentation on the services page and an explosive ident on the home page!

Visit the site: www.comusproductions.co.uk

Admin76 is a powerful and versatile web content management system (CMS) designed and developed by 76 Creative. It is a PHP / mySQL driven project, for which I developed it's coding framework.

The main difference between Admin76 and other commercial CMS's is it's potential to be tailored exactly to the website it is powering. It can be transformed into a very 'bespoke' system, and so can be used to power many different genres of website, from a simple 5 page website, to a large news site, image or video gallery or a recruitment site. The only controls available in the CMS will be the exact controls you need to manage your site, nothing more, nothing less!

Other CMS's have certain 'tendencies' which relate to their intended user-base. For instance, WordPress is very much associated with blogging, Drupal is associated with community-driven sites. This is reflected in the possible themes, plugins and addons available for each.

Admin76 on the other hand is more flexible in this respect.  It can power a site with static pages, and news with categories and date based archives in the same way that WordPress can, but it can also power all sorts of different types of lists, with as many custom fields as you wish, e.g. address lists, list of file downloads, event diary, mp3 playlists, video playlists, etc. It can even be made to output XML, so it can be used to fully manage Flash Sites too.

As Admin76 is currently only available to customers of 76 Creative it has no 3rd party features, like plugins etc., available. This, however, is another strength of the system. All of Admin76's features are built in. It has an advanced image gallery system, with multiple file upload, medium size and thumbnail image creation.

Other standard features include RSS Feeds, Multiple Authors / Administrators, Flash Slideshow System, Flash Video Gallery System.

For more info about Admin76, and to enquire about getting your own self-managed, elegantly designed website get in touch with 76 Creative.

Some of the mySQL and PHP functions I have utilised in Admin76 will soon be available as tutorials on my site.