When
CMS Made Simple founder Ted Kulp created the open source website
management software in 2004, Wordpress didn't exist and blogging was not
yet a way of life. He needed a simpler way of inputting content to websites, so he created one. With designers for the
Shops at Liberty Place,
the
Philadelphia Sun and the
African American Chamber of Commerce using
the platform, Kulp has spread the simple around, and has been rewarded
with users in 219 countries. This month, CMS Made Simple hit its biggest
milestone yet, reaching one million downloads.
"After I made it, I just put the code out there to see if other people
were interested and it and it has grown so large, and there are so many
people who have worked on it, there is no way we could close it now,
it's out there for the world to use," says Kulp. "I do things like
support and custom development around it so there are a lot of different
avenues for everything except the software itself. And it's worked
fairly well for me."
As a partner with interactive ad agency
Defined Clarity, Kulp has been building websites for
years. Today, CMS Made Simple's forum message board allows
customers direct access to this CMS and the professional designers who
created it, allowing for a fully functional customer experience that
Kulp and Defined Clarity partner Bruce Marable hope will continue to
grow.
"It's
time for all the people who are not using it to know about it," says
Marable. "It has been growing organically for the last five or six
years.
We want to make the project grow and to position it as the number one
content management system out there."
Source: Ted Kulp, CMS Made Simple
Writer: John Steele