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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Building a CMS completly in flash seems a little silly to me. XHTML already provides an extensive array of form controls and a rigid means of displaying text/tables/data etc... doing it in flash would mean re-inventing the wheel, and not necessarly for the better. After all, you'd be accessing the same data source for the CMS managaent application as you would for the end display of the site yes? If so, then you'd need to write two completly different presentation layers, one for Flash, one for XHTML. Why not just stick with XHTML and save yourself the trouble. If need be you could use flash components to assist the managing process (WYSIWYG Text Editor etc...), but doing the entire thing in flash would be complete overkill and take twice as long. Trust me, I've built a blog/calendar app in flash before, it really wasn't fun. Taking a hybrid approach would be the best solution, building the core of the application with a solid XHTML foundation then leveraging flash's scripting, rich media and backgorund request abilties for "enhanced" features and usability would be the best way to go IMHO. [url=http://dracusis.deviantart.com/] [img]http://www.whatever.net.au/~cameron/files/images/ozone/ArtDecoSiggy.gif[/img] [/url] Loading...
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