It's another boring update I'm afraid. I have spent most of the evening reworking parts of the CMS. Before today, I had to type "new article" in a console (only visible for administrators), which created a new article with a default text and body and without any groups. Since I save every modification (version) of all articles, this is always the initial version. As you might understand, this is polluting my database needlessly and could be handled better.

The rest of the evening I've spent looking for a good WYSIYWG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. So far, I have tried FCKEditor (FCK), FreeTextBox (FTB) and a few others not worth remembering. While both FCK and FTB both have some issues regarding Asynchronous postbacks, I have decided not to invest any more time into finding solutions. Since this has eaten up a lot of time that I could have spent further developing the site itself. I've decided to just implement it with the few workarounds I have found which are a good enough solution for the time being; FCK for in-page editing, extracting the data from Context.Request.Form[FCK_ID] and using FTB in the CMS in a modal popup dialog with full postbacks.

A smaller change that I have made is that messages about the progress with site development have been grouped into a new Article Genre called "Site Development" and won't be shown directly on the frontpage anymore.