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Show HN: Custom CMS using Node and Backbone for my girlfriend's fashion blog
- vsergiu 12y agoIs it open source?
- maxmzd_ 12y agoNo, I wrote it solely for the purpose of this blog, but I wouldn't mind open sourcing it after I add a couple more things to the admin panel (if there's interest).
- vsergiu 12y agoI think there is interest :). Btw how do we access the admin?
- maxmzd_ 12y agoCool, good to hear! I will push towards it. Admin panel is located at a hidden URL right now. There are no user accounts yet, just a single, protected resource with a private key. That's one of the things I need to add.
- msurguy 12y agoVery cool idea for the fashion bloggers. You might even sell this CMS (per client basis) or if you gather a team of web developers - become an agency working with fashion bloggers. There is some potentially good money in this.
- maxmzd_ 12y agoYeah, lots of opportunity here for sure. One thing I've been getting good feedback on from some fashion bloggers is the "shop the look" feature on each photo. Affiliate links is how many fashion bloggers monetize.
- vsergiu 12y agoHave you used a plugin to do that or is it custom? Since you can make a plugin out of that and sell it
- maxmzd_ 12y agoI wrote custom Backbone.js views and subviews to handle the shop tags. But you're right, this would be an awesome WordPress plugin. The affiliate network RewardStyle has something similar, but it's lacking a few things, which is why I wrote my own.
- sathvikl 12y agovery very cool ! Can you point to some links that you used to learn node, backbone.. what do you use for layout design ?
- maxmzd_ 12y agoThanks! I learned Node.js by watch some of Pedro Teixeira's screencasts: http://nodetuts.com/ http://nodetuts.com/ I'm using Express.js as the backend framework and read some tutorials on that. Can't remember which ones. I learned Backbone.js by reading the docs: http://backbonejs.org/ http://backbonejs.org/ along with reading source code of projects I was familiar with. This best practices article came in handy too: http://geeks.bizzabo.com/post/83917692143/7-battle-tested-backbonejs-rules-for-amazing-web-apps http://geeks.bizzabo.com/post/83917692143/7-battle-tested-ba... For layout design, I tend to sketch my UX ideas on paper. For this site, since it's so minimal, I designed straight in the browser using HTML / CSS (SASS)
- JustinBrown 12y agoSite looks great, but do you have any peeks into the actual CMS? Would love to see!
- maxmzd_ 12y agoThanks! And not yet, but I'm working on a blog post to show it off a bit more.
- eswat 12y agoPretty slick. Can’t wait to see the nuts & bolts of it if you decide to release it. Two problems I noticed so far: 1) Images are getting cut off from the header in the individual blog posts (I’m using Chrome 36 on OS X) 2) Back button functionality is broken, would be nice to have that working
- maxmzd_ 12y agoThanks! Did you happen to resize your browser? I notice that some things get janky because of the waypoints after resize. Need to work on that.
- eswat 12y agoI believe I was looking at it full-res at the time - 1920 x 1200 - but resized after and noticed I could see the photos fine when I resized smaller.
- heyalexej 12y agoNice project. A couple things I noticed: You're leaking emails and IP addresses of commenters in your source code. There are plenty of dead pages[1] in the index which you could redirect to the home page or just disallow Google to index either via robots.txt or Google Webmaster Tools. Edit: Skimming through the site I couldn't actually find a single affiliate link from the image labels. [1] https://www.google.com/#q=site%3Avanillaextract.me+inurl%3Atag+OR+inurl%3Apage+OR+inurl%3Acategory https://www.google.com/#q=site%3Avanillaextract.me+inurl%3At...
- maxmzd_ 12y agoHey, thanks for checking it out! Where are you seeing the emails and IP addresses of the commenters?
- narzero 12y agolooks amazing!