This is the second time I’ve written this article so it’ll be much shorter now. Damn you back button!

I’ve been using vBulletin to create a webmaster social network at MySpacePros.com for the past month now and while it has all the features I need, I can’t imagine using vB for a social network that wasn’t aimed towards webmasters. As awesome as it is, it’s a beast to work with. What would I use then? WordPress. Or more specifically, BuddyPress. Take that last sentence with a grain of salt though, because I’ve never actually seen it in action. This is all just speculation.

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This is an update to a post made earlier today.

Last week I posted a Cushy CMS review that received quite a bit of attention. A few people expressed interest in the flat file CMS that I mentioned I use internally, so I wanted to post it. From this point on I’ll refer to it ask Skeleton.

You can grab it here: Skeleton: flat file CMS

Cushy CMS bills itself as an online content manager created to “take the work out of managing content” that is “Super. Easy. To. Use.”.

Account creation takes less than 30 seconds from start to logged in. They score big points from me on this. Had it not been so fast I wouldn’t be doing this review. Anything that makes me click a link from my email to verify an account and then manually enter my login details irritates me enough to pass it by completely. You can get signed up and start using it faster than you can type this sentence.

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