Dandelion is a small and simple Content Management System, created by Charming Design. It allows you to easily keep your website up-to-date, and has built-in options for a guestbook, a picture album, and many more…

About Dandelion CMS

Dandelion is web based tool, which allows you to manage your website and create, update, disable and delete pages through an easy-to-use administration panel.

By default, you can create simple text pages and format those with BB-code. BB-code is mainly used on bulletin boards and forums, for making text [b]bold[/b] or [i]italic[/i]. In Dandelion, this has been extended so you can create an etire page with it.

To create some interactive elements on your website, you can the available modules. You can also upload and use images on your pages, and Dandelion has a built-in image resizer.

Designwise, its pretty simple to create your website, because everything is managed through a couple of templates and stylesheets. You can create these yourself, but I recommend to leave this to me (maybe procide your own design), because it takes me not that much time, and you're sure everything looks and works as intended.

Interested?

There are already several Dandelion websites online, and they all work like a charm. Take a look at the available modules and system requirements below, and please contact me for more information.

Available Modules

Already several modules are available, but new ones can be created easily on demand. See here the current list:

Doorway page

A doorway page is a click-to-enter page for your website. It shows an image centered on the page, and message saying: “Click image to enter”.

Guestbook

The guestbook module is a simple guestbook with support for BB-code and smilies. For posting a message, the following fiels are available: name, email (optional), subject, and message. The guestbook also offers protection agains spambot attacks.

Mailform

A mailform page where visitors can send you an e-mail by filling out a form. The following field are available: name, e-mail address, subject, and message.

Picture album

Allows you to easily create a picture album. It features an overview page with tumbnails, and a popup with a full-size picture and navigation. Uploaded pictres are automaticly resized to the maximum size.

Picture album overview page

When you have several picture album, you can use this module to create a picture album overview page. You will get a page with all album names and a thumbnail for each album.

Redirect page

Creates a page with a message like: “You will be redirected in 10 seconds”. Easy for when you changed a page URL.

Sitemap

Creates a sitemap for your website. You can exclude pages from showing in the sitemap.

System Requirements

The system requirements for Dandelion are not that high, but certain specific settings are required. Most professional hosts have these settings applied by default.

Changelog

Version 1.4

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0