Its been a while since I started writing a plugin for Silverstripe CMS: “Page Elements“.

I felt myself running into the same problems every time when we build websites, no matter which CMS we chose:

• Multiple columns and content areas on websites are difficult to manage

• WYSIWYG editors leave little room anything else other than formatted text and images, such as flash elements, forms etc

So what I wanted was:

• An interface that is fun to use when dealing with complex layouts
• No more limitation for layouts
• Straight forward extendability
• Re-usability of code and components
• Seamless integration in existing CMS Interface an Workflow.

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