OVERPASS
You are now logged into OverPass CMS. Click on an area of text or an image to try it out. If you want to log out, just click the "x" in corner of the admin area, located at the top-right of the screen.

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Overpass

MANAGMENT SCHMANAGEMENT

Nobody thinks that management is all sunshine and buttercups. Management is a chore. It's the soul-draining void to an otherwise lovely day. It's boring and dumb, and managing your site's content is no different.

Overpass is hardly like that. Whether you are a web developer trying to make a client's site more useful, or you're working on your own site, Overpass can make “content management” seem more like a piece of cake, and less like a pain in the neck.

WYSIWYG (WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET)

You see something you want to change? Once you are logged in, just click on what you want to edit, make your changes, and save. This way you know exactly what you are changing, and when you are done you can see exactly what your page will look like. You can even change images. Overpass will upload your new image to the images folder on your server, and update the link automatically. If the image you want to use is already online, that's even easier. Just feed Overpass the image URL and you can see what it will look like right on your page.

MAKING STATIC SITES NOT
QUITE SO... STATIC

Not every site needs a database to hold mountains of information. Sometimes a few static HTML pages will do the trick. That's where Overpass really shines. Overpass stores everything—all of your settings, all of your HTML changes, all of your versions and drafts—on the server. And when you are done editing, it will save all of the changes straight to your HTML. All the benefits of a dynamic database-driven CMS without all the hassle.

MAKING YOUR TEXT ALL
THE MORE RICHER

Overpass makes use of the TinyMCE rich text editor, allowing you to quickly and easily write text with all of your sites formatting and styles available at a click. Make that word bold, change that paragraph to a heading. Whatever you want to do to your text, Overpass makes it easy. And if you know your way around code, TinyMCE is highly customizable, with a huge array of options and an extensive plug-in structure. Overpass with TinyMCE is your text's best friend.

EVERYBODY MAKES MISTAKES

Fortunately, you don’t always have to live with them. Every time you press the ‘Publish’ button, a draft of your HTML gets saved on the server. If you’ve messed up, or if you just want to go back to a better time in your web page’s life, all you have to do is choose a draft from the drop-down in the Overpass admin box and hit ‘Save’. If you’re not sure which draft is which, click the ‘Preview’ button and you can get a sneak peak.

DELAYED GRATIFICATION
IS FOR LOSERS

With Overpass, there is no separate admin page where you make the changes to your site. It all happens in one place, and you can see each change as you go. Now you don't have to go through endless rounds of flipping back and forth between browser windows, saving changes and refreshing your HTML, just to see if your HTML looks all right. And since all of your changes are saved on your web server, once you are fully satisfied and it's time to make your latest changes live, your site is updated almost instantly.

YES, FRIEND, YOU CAN
HAVE EVERYTHING

With all of the ways that Overpass can give you control over your site’s content, it doesn’t bring a lot of baggage with it. When logged in, the extra code for the CMS adds very little overhead on bandwidth, and virutally nothing for your site’s visitors. Anybody who is not logged into Overpass will see the same static HTML that would be there if there were no CMS at all. All this for the low, low price of FREE.

TRY OUT THE DEMO, OR DOWNLOAD IT AND TRY IT ON YOUR OWN SITE.

HOW TO INSTALL

  1. FIRST OF ALL:

  2. BACK UP FILES

    MAKE A COPY OF YOUR HTML FILES SO THAT YOU DON’T LOSE ANYTHING IMPORTANT.

  3. UPLOAD IT

    UPLOAD THE OVERPASS FOLDER TO YOUR WEB SERVER. IT SHOULD GO IN THE ROOT FOLDER OF YOUR SITE FILES.

  4. ADD CODE

    ADD THIS LINE OF CODE TO THE HEAD OF YOUR HTML DOCUMENT: <?php include("overpass/core/init.php"); ?>

    AND ADD THIS CODE TO ANY HTML ELEMENT THAT YOU WANT EDITABLE: class="editable"

  5. RUN OVERPASS SETUP

    NAVIGATE TO THE OVERPASS FOLDER IN YOUR BROWSER AND OVERPASS WILL GUIDE YOU THROUGH THE SETUP PROCESS.

  6. LOG IN AND EDIT

    OVERPASS WILL TAKE CARE OF THE REST!

OVERPASS REQUIREMENTS

Server: PHP4+

Browser: Tested in Firefox 3.5/Win, Firefox 3.5/Mac, Safari 4/Mac, Camino 2