Brand New CMS System Based Entirely in Flash – Meet FlashMoto

FlashMoto logo After spending some time on the web today researching a few web design tpics, I ran into a very peculiar concept: a CMS system based entirely in Flash. Is it possible? Oh, it’s very possible, and it’s in active beta as you read this!

FlashMoto is a groundbreaking script based on Adobe’s ever popular Flash. As more and more websites turn to Flash for enhanced UI, visual effects, and heightened creativity, there have not been many frameworks for developers to work with and base their applications around Flash. However, although it may seem like a real hassle, the development team with FlashMoto really did a great job making FlashMoto not only easy to understand, but also easy to use and manipulate.

The software behaves very similar to a regular CMS where it has an administrative backend that you can log into and change content, color, design, and many other features. However, the layout of the administrator panel is more like an artboard: move things out of the way, re-color, and redesign just by dragging and dropping. To help understand a bit how FlashMoto works, the designers have created an introductory video to help newcomers.

Watch FlashMoto Video Tutorial

FlashMoto hasn’t been in the news very much, but I think that as the site opens for beta word of mouth will spread amongst the design and development community. Fresh blood on the market trying something new and innovative… it will be interesting to see where this idea goes. Who knows, within months there could be major companies attaching small tags at the bottom of their footers: “Powered by FlashMoto”.

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6 Responses to “Brand New CMS System Based Entirely in Flash – Meet FlashMoto”

Before they released the public beta, I also found it very interesting. Now after trying it, I’m very disapointed. You have none of the freedom or flexibility of Yooba, and it’s not as easy as Yooba. It does look promising, but they’ve got a long way to go to catch up.

Olle Olsson on June 25th, 2009 at 4:13 am

good artcile…this is infact something that I was not aware of..but Flash is something that i am interested in as Flash applications are really good. Even Forum Nokia’s 2009 Calling All Innovators contest have a special category for Falsh applications.

keth flower on June 25th, 2009 at 8:04 am

1st of all thanks to author for a great review.
2 Olle Olsson: Yooba is really great, impressive and shocking application BUT it’s a builder. Simple builder based on templated designs. So all your features are to insert an image or text and add a standard animation to it. You won’t be able to create galleries (i mean dynamic galleries, with albums, tags and so on), blogs, News or adjust your OWN flash website with some cool effects you made.
We can’t compare FlashMoto with Yooba. FlashMoto is a powerful CMS with ability to use API. Yooba is a good looking builder and that’s it.

FlashMoto CMS on June 25th, 2009 at 12:17 pm

one more nice topic in your blog and nice comments too keep it up, If you advise some more related links to topic. I’m very interested in CMS and all its related subjects.

Martin Hemmer on July 12th, 2009 at 4:35 am

Моя теория значительно отличается от изложенной автором, если кому-то интересно, могу поделиться своими идеями. Мой емаил:ujassss46@hotmail.com, Стас.

Tokarev on October 1st, 2009 at 3:20 pm

FlashMoto is a powerful CMS with ability to use API. Yooba is a good looking builder and that’s it.

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