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| Previous email: a local, |
| malleable HTML file. Now: |
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Hi web explorers,
I remember being 22 years old
in 2007, on vacation in San
Diego, warm wind blowing in
through the front door.
I was on the couch, eyes
intently focused on my laptop.
I'd just figured out how to
change a page's colors and
fonts in Firebug and see them
update live.
My screen was malleable: I was
shaping the digital world by
touching it.
That's the feeling I want
people to have when building
software: they can touch it.
With Hyperclay CMS, a few
selectors in a JSON script tag
automatically give your static
page editing controls:
{
"name": ".name",
"bio": ".bio",
"photo": ".photo@src"
}
You get upload and cropping
controls for photos, list
reordering, and even an
optional inline-editor
directly on top of the page.
Edits change the page itself,
not a separate CMS database.
Use the free, cross-platform
HTML Clay app to have changes
persist into a local file.
Let's hack software and make
it easier to build
for everyone,
David
@panphora