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Beta release out
Hi folks,
It’s been a long road to launch this beta. That was really tough to stop adding new features and to be focus to release something. Yes, I had to struggle against my nature but I managed at the end !
I spent a lot of time writing a good installation guide, especially for the Heroku part. I hope it is clear enough. If it is not, feel free to send me your suggestions at info@locomotivecms.com.
Besides, I added the themes section, which is useful if you want to try Locomotive with a real example.
I just took some nice templates from different gallery templates or blog (thanks Tom by the way !) and converted them for Locomotive. I suggest you to take a look at them because you will understand how the Locomotive templates and the other modules work.
Actually, it is pretty easy to convert a html template since I have a special tool for that. I call it the Locomotive Editor (fancy name, isn’t it ?). Basically, it is based on the locomotive engine bundled in a Sinatra app but without mongodb and other stuff like the back-office for instance. The edition of templates, contents and other assets can be done with a simple text editor, Textmate in my case. Once I’m done with a theme, I simply zip the folder and import it in Locomotive.
For now, I don’t plan to open source the editor. It depends on the way I’m going to “monetize” Locomotive. Even if I’ve got several ideas, I’ve not taken a decision yet.
What are the next steps for Locomotive ?
First of all, I expect a lot from developers. I’m looking for feedbacks and even for bugs to solve !
On my side, I’m going to write tutorials. The first one will be probably about how to create a custom content and use it in a liquid template.
You are a company and you want to use Locomotive to host a couple of websites ?
Even if you build super sexy and big apps, you always have to manage some simple websites for small clients. That’s not a problem anymore ! I’m willing to help companies which want Locomotive as their website hosting solution for their clients. Locomotive is definitely a good fit for you ! For instance, I’ve got a single Locomotive instance running on Heroku and serving 3 websites (http://www.locomotivecms.com is one of them).
I’m very excited to see how Locomotive’s going to turn out ! I’m sure it will help people a lot to build and edit websites. That’s the reason why I created it.
